Housewives from New Rochelle, grass widows from Texas, kept women from the East Sixties, movie directors, a few Hollywood stars, tycoons from Detroit, officials of the UN, international riffraff, members of the theatrical profession and Café Society, and some men who might be called upon to make the decisions that influence history… Such was the passenger list of the Dauphiné, and among them was an unlisted passenger–Death.
