Word: weisendonck
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...murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink, to help him forget his responsibility for two women's deaths. Weisendonck, London Jew, was wanted for swindling. The Sicilian police were after Malatesta. O'Phelan had been a member of the Irish Republican Army, among other less respectable things...
...same sponge-divers' gang. The work was punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...
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