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Some more thoughts on Erikas birthday cruise adventure.

I figured a group of 50 or so rich and/or well connected people, mostly politicians and big business and maybe a few oddballs going on a cruise to socialize and make private deals could be turned into a decent mystery setting. That kind of ship would be large enough for there to be some way to maneuver characters around, while also being compact enough that readers can get an intuitive understanding of how the different rooms connect to eachother.
After the first incident most of the people on board can be eliminated as suspects, leaving a reasonable pool of potential culprits for the reader to sort through.

I also want to include Erika finding out her boyfriend has been cheating on her while on the cruise, but I'm not 100% sure if it contradicts something that was stated in Umineko.