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Dive into a captivating murder mystery set in the picturesque islands of Hawaii. Follow the journey of John Quincy Winterslip, a disciplined Bostonian bond trader, who gets embroiled in a murder case while trying to convince his vacationing aunt, Minerva, to return home. As he navigates various strata of Hawaiian society, he assists the ingenious Detective Charlie Chan in unravelling the mystery. Along the way, he falls for a charming local woman, calls off his engagement to his straight-laced fiancee, Agatha, and makes a life-altering decision to relocate to San Francisco. This riveting tale ...

In this murder mystery, the main character is the victim’s nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston and is entangled with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for several years. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco....