Book II of Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt. Long ago the dying ruler of a small interstellar kingdom made a minor Old-Earth bureaucrat named Hobart Floyt the surprised inheritor of an interstellar spaceship. And that was wonderful, for in those days, Mankind was again expanding into the galaxy and a private spaceship was a license to coin credits. There were one or two minor problems: the dead ruler never told Floyt how to find the ship - the bureaucrats of Earth want the ship for themselves - and someone keeps trying to murder Floyt and his friend Alacrity Fitzhugh. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/fall-of-the-white-ship-avatar-brian-daley