Book 9, by Helen Wells (ghostwritten by Julie Tatham)
Illustrated by ???
Grosset & Dunlap, 1948
A Caribbean cruise! ... Almost two weeks of warm weather and sea air. A stopover at the exciting-sounding island of Curaçao in the Netherlands West Indies; then on to Venezuela and Colombia in South America.
--From Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse, p. 5
Cherry's working vacation on a glamorous cruise ship entangles her in a search for a hidden stash of rare ambergris.
Chapter 1: Waiting for a Letter
Chapter 2: "Bon Voyage!"
Chapter 3: Sick Bay
Cherry also travels aboard a luxury cruise ship in "Bermuda Adventure"--but she's working then, too.
Chapter 4: Timmy
Chapter 5: Mr. Rough Diamond
Chapter 6: Scuttlebutt
Chapter 7: A Stormy Night
Chapter 8: Timmy's Mysterious Visitor
Chapter 9: Uncle Ben
This is one of two books in the series that discuss the making of perfume; the other is Boarding School Nurse.
Chapter 10: Jan's Problem
Chapter 11: Timmy's Pirate
Chapter 12: Caught Off Bounds!
Chapter 13: A Stolen Letter
Chapter 14: Waidler and Ziggy Are Evasive
Helen Wells's decision to abandon writing the series left Julie Tatham with only a few weeks to ghostwrite this volume.