Vicki Barr, young, pretty stewardess for Federal Airlines, is delighted when given her new
assignment aboard the New York-to-Tampa run. But a shipment of priceless antique gold coins, bound for an exhibition at Tampa's
famous Gasparilla Pirate Festival, disappears on one of Vicki's first Tamp flights.
The official list of suspects includes Vicki's friend, young Joey Watson, besides a silky-smooth
import-export agent called "The Duke."
Vicki, however, cannot forget two of her passengers on that fateful flight: the frightened old
man, Amos Tytell; the other, Wesley R. Eaton-Smith, the suave but disturbing travel agent from Tampa.
Their trail leads Vicki to Tampa's old Latin Quarter of Ybor City, and a startling series of
discoveries that almost cost Vicki her life. But it is on a trip to Havana, with her friends the Curtins, that Vicki fits into place the
scattered pieces of the dangerous puzzle.
How Vicki daringly thwarts the desperate smugglers in a breakneck race between two
careening planes is the climax to yet another exciting adventure with Vicki Barr, Air Stewardess.
