Murder frames the scene : a Hawai'i mystery / Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kneubuhl, Victoria N. (Victoria Nalani), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Investigation.

Murder.

Hawaii--Fiction.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, [Hawaii] : University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Author and playwright Victoria Kneubuhl returns with another thoroughly entertaining, yet complex, whodunit set in 1930s Hawai`i featuring the lead characters from Murder Casts a Shadow and Murder Leaves Its Mark. The pair of unlikely sleuths—part-Hawaiian Mina Beckwith and her fiancé, part-Samoan Ned Manusia—find themselves unraveling a deadly web of espionage and murder. As the story opens, Ned is in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, where he has been sent to rescue his friend Nigel, a British spy being ruthlessly hunted by the Japanese police. The action moves to Honolulu where Mina is embroiled with a group of eccentric artists whose numbers are being depleted in a series of dramatically staged murders. While Mina looks into the murders of the artists, Ned and Nigel attempt to ferret out a spy sending reports on the activities of the Navy at Pearl Harbor to the Japanese government. The two plot lines become intertwined as Ned and Mina are enmeshed in a dangerous net of international intrigue.Like the previous novels, Murder Frames the Scene offers readers a fascinating glimpse into prewar Hawai`i, full of colorful local characters, descriptions of familiar places in another era, and a vivid sense of the islands as much more than beaches and palm trees.A Latitude 20 book

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 SHANGHAI, OCTOBER 1935

2 HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1935

3 SHANGHAI, OCTOBER

4 HONOLULU, HALLOWEEN

5 HONOLULU, LATE NOVEMBER

6 LATE NOVEMBER

7 THANKSGIVING EVE

8 THANKSGIVING

9 EARLY DECEMBER

10 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7

11 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8

12 MONDAY, DECEMBER 9

13 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

14 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

15 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

16 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

17 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14

18 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15

19 MONDAY, DECEMBER 16

20 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17

21 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18

22 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19

23 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20

24 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21

25 CHRISTMAS DAY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

"A latitude 20 book."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8248-5532-9

0-8248-5530-2

OCLC:

1224278383