Imagine a massive luxury liner so hauntingly similar to the Titanic that it featured the exact same "unsinkable" design, yet vanished without a single trace three years before the famous disaster even happened. In this episode of The DownUnder Mystery Club, authors AJ Blythe and Ava Ness chart a course back to 1909 to unpack the baffling disappearance of the SS Waratah and discuss how Australia’s premier steamship completely disappeared into the ocean along with everyone on board.

Listen in as we trace the liner's final steps through the eyes of the last sailors to see her alive, exploring a chaotic mix of hurricane-force waves, chilling unconfirmed accounts of mid-ocean explosions and a mysterious final lamp signal cut short by the dark. Then, we head into our Mystery Book Club segment to chat about the best mystery novel ...