She was quite a girl, the "Angel," a luxury yacht the Prince of Monaco could well have envied, and a common sight in season in Monte Carlo. She was the property of a lecherous, slightly alcoholic American millionaire named Freddy Farr whose merry-making parties aboard were legendary.

Gazing out to sea, many a gambler at Monte Carlo's tables sighed at the sight of her sleek lines, dreaming of the bevy of beauties whom Freddy was doubtless entertaining this trip.

Never guessing the party was over, for Freddy and all his guests, in one of the most diabolical kidnapping plots ever conceived.