Ship of Fools is a murder mystery, yet I was about a hundred pages in before a murder even happened. Or indeed, anything interesting. Dave Stone seems to fancy himself Douglas Adams, with a lot of digressions about his humorous universe, yet his hit ratio is much lower; rarely did they provoke much laughter. The one satirizing Miss Marple was hilarious, though. And if you don't like the jokes, there's not much else to go on here; certainly, there's not very much plot.