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Blood and Orchids
Blood and Orchids
Author: Norman Katkov
Hawaii. 1930. Four local youths were accused of raping Hester Ashley Murdoch, socially prominent wife of a rising young navy officer. This was the first and biggest lie in a drama of crime and cover-up that pitted the islands' native population against the might of the U.S. Navy and ruling wealth of a white landed aristocracy. In the end the fac...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451131874
ISBN-10: 0451131878
Publication Date: 10/1/1984
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Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Compared to IN COLD BLOOD and SERPENTINE, this is the story of racial and class conflict in 1930s Hawaii, when four native youths are accused of raping and beating the wife of a US Navy officer. A gripping thriller.
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An assault on the wife of a Navy lieutenant shatters the idyllic facade of American life on the Hawaiian Islands in the 1930s, as four local boys are falsely accused of the crime.


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