Now London. Suzy Marshall 60+ gets no calls from her agent—even for the oft recognized star of a wildly popular 1980s TV series. Until she flies to Zurich for a plum role, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. Then police knock on the locked stage door. Suzy takes a job on a cruise ship to get home.

Meanwhile widow Amanda Herbert 60s, downsizing, is homeless in rainy Clapham. The financier selling her new apartment changes his mind, and her selfish children refuse help. An ad has prices that would ease her troubles. She takes the same ship as Suzy—and the villain for both is a thief, a killer.