Dark Ocean, The-Jack Vance mystery novel, book review
Dark Ocean, The-Jack Vance mystery novel The Dark Ocean is a 175 page mystery novel that was written in the late 1960s but was not published until 1985 when it was released in hardcover by Underwood Miller. In 2002 it was published as part of the hardcover Vance Integral Edition and in 2012 the Subterranean Press released it along with three other Vance mystery novels in a hardcover edition titled Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries Volume Two. Spatterlight released the first paperback edition in 2017. The Dark Ocean is somewhat similar to Vance's novel The Deadly Isles in that most of the story takes place on a ship. Instead of a yacht in the South Seas near Tahiti, The Dark Ocean is set on an Italian freighter that leaves San Francisco on its way to Italy with stops in Los Angeles, El Salvador and Panama. It is an engaging and easy to read novel with a rather straightforward plot that is not very complex or subtle. At times it is also not very realistic ...