Juri Nummelin writes:
> Are there any other Hawaiian P.I.'s
around?
William Campbell Gault's _Hibiscus and Homicide_ is a very
good P. I. story, set in late-1940s Honolulu, with an
excellect sense of place. Curiously enough, its initial
situation -- a boxer hiring a detective to look for the
boxer's missing girlfriend -- is also the beginning of
Gault's first Brock Callahan novel, _Murder in the Raw_. (The
stories go different directions, though -- they just start
the same way.)
_Hibiscus and Homicide_ was reprinted in _The Mammoth Book of
Pulp Fiction_, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, a superior
anthology which includes some other great work -- for
instance, the short version of Fredric Brown's _The Wench Is
Dead_, Donald Westlake's _Ordo_, _Flight to Nowhere_ by
Charles Williams, Lawrence Block's _A Candle for the Bag
Lady_, lots more.
-- Fr. John Woolley
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