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THE CAPTAIN NEEDS A MATE by Eric Hatch

THE CAPTAIN NEEDS A MATE

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Pub Date: Sept. 15th, 1938
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

Trying to make the screwballiana grade -- but mostly flatting it en route. He did one very amusing yarn; most of its successors have been disappointments. This is a pretty silly story of a man, divorced, unloved, unloving, high and dry without a job. As a gag, more or less, he is hired as captain of his ex-wife's yacht, now in other hands, and on the way to Cannes, the crew and guests, -- professional loafers, and adventurers, take it over as a cooperative venture, and make a go of it. There's a romance on the side, of course.