El diablo y el mar oscuro

The year is 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the most famous detective in the world, is a prisoner on the Saddam en route to Amsterdam, where he faces trial and hanging. Along with him travel his faithful friend, Arent Hayes, determined to prove Pipps' innocence, and Sara Wessel, the wife of the Governor General of Batavia, in the East Indies. Suddenly, a series of mysterious events puzzles the crew and passengers: a strange symbol appears on a sail, a deceased leper prowls the ship and several animals are sacrificed. And, as if that weren't enough, a voice terrifies the passengers in the shadows with a terrible prophecy: they will witness three diabolical miracles. The first, an unlikely chase; the second, an inconceivable theft; the third, a murder impossible to commit. With Pipps behind bars, Arent and Sara will have to solve alone the mystery that threatens to send them all to the depths of the ocean.