Minerva Winterslip, a proper Bostonian, lingers on the beach at Waikiki long after her family wants her home, and her nephew John Quincy is sent to fetch her. Then a Winterslip is murdered, and the case passes to a patient, quietly brilliant sergeant of the Honolulu police named Charlie Chan.
The first Charlie Chan novel, with a rich sense of 1920s Hawaii; some period attitudes date it. Download the free EPUB.