A Thousand-Year-Old Story

Sir Dabney is found dead on his yacht soon after it enters a small port in the Marianna Islands. Everyone on board assumes Sir Dabney died of a heart attack, but Dr. Charles Duggin, at the request of police inspector Jim Trees, performs an autopsy, which proves that the 68-year-old millionaire had been poisoned. Trees is convinced the murder was committed by Sir Dabney’s secretary, Clive Chubb, whom he discovers, had been having an affair with Dabney’s young wife. But Dr. Duggin, an old school chum of Chubb’s, refuses to go along with Trees’ theory.

A very rich man dies on his fancy boat. The police think his worker did it. But the town doctor, who has been the worker's friend since they were kids, thinks his friend didn't do it and tries to help him.

A tremendously wealthy man is killed aboard his own luxury yacht. The investigators believe the only possible culprit is his employee. But the local physician who also happens to be the employee's friend since childhood believes him innocent and tries to aid the unfortunate man.