Research Catalog

Title

Murder casts a shadow : a Hawai'i mystery / Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.

Author

Kneubuhl, Victoria N. (Victoria Nalani)

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.

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Holdings

Details

Description

vi, 277 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"New Year's Eve, 1934. While Honolulu celebrates with champagne and fireworks, someone is making away with the Bishop Museum's portrait of King Kalākaua and its curator. A series of brutal murders follows, and an unlikely pair, newspaper reporter Mina Beckwith and visiting playwright Ned Manusia, find themselves investigating a twisted trail of clues in an attempt to recover the painting and uncover the killer."--Page 4 of cover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

Hawaii > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery stories.
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- Happy New Year -- Mina's Appointment -- The Fun Begins -- How Gardens Grow -- Anger and the Arts -- The Watchers -- Cocktail Hour -- What Girls Know -- Questions -- Dramas Unfold -- The Valley of Shadows -- A Shifting Tide -- Secrets Past and Present -- News Travels -- Tipsy Turvy -- Truth Doesn't Hurt -- Happy Birthdays -- Loose Ends -- Paniolo Country -- Grandma Hannah's Story -- Out Riding -- Bulls and Birds -- Watch Where You Step -- A Busy Night -- Night Reading -- Collectibles -- The White Glove Treatment -- Past Present Tense -- Hunting and Gathering -- Girl Talk -- Little Dramas -- Dark Eyes Hide Secrets -- Crossing Tracks -- Unscheduled -- A Close Wilderness -- Doors that Open and Close -- Curtain

ISBN

• 9780824832179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0824832175 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008005590

OCLC

• 191898229
• SCSB-11395263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library