By Earl Derr Biggers
The unconventional, which occurs in Twenties Hawai, spends time acquainting the reader with the appear and feel of the islands of that period from the viewpoint of either white and non-white population, and describes social classification buildings and customs that have principally vanished within the twenty first century. the radical offers with the homicide of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawai for a few years. the most personality is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced younger Bostonian bond dealer, who got here to the islands to attempt to persuade his aunt Minerva, whose holiday has prolonged many months, to come to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, quickly falls less than the spell of the islands himself, meets an enticing younger girl, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and comes to a decision after the homicide is solved to maneuver to San Francisco. within the period, he's brought to many degrees of Hawaiian society and is of a few counsel to Detective Charlie Chan in fixing the secret.
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