
A sweltering Hawaiian afternoon provides the backdrop for a quiet, unsettling drama. Beneath the palm‑shaded garden of a grand Waikiki hotel, a lone figure watches the bustling deck, waiting for the perfect moment to slip inside. The hotel’s open promenade, with its colorful umbrellas and shuffleboard courts, feels both inviting and oddly tense as the stranger makes his move.
Inside the Brewster household, the ordinary rhythm of family life is shattered by a sudden telephone ring. Eleven‑year‑old Monica darts to answer, eager to hear a call from Honolulu, while her brother Biff and their father, Thomas, exchange wary glances. The unexpected contact hints at a mystery that reaches far beyond the sunny resort.
As the characters grapple with the strange intrusion, listeners are drawn into a tale of hidden motives and island intrigue, where every footstep on the teak deck could uncover a clue.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (191K characters)
Series
A Biff Brewster mystery adventure, 3
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2016-04-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1859–1935
Drawn from years on cattle trails rather than romantic myth, his western stories feel lived-in, dusty, and real. Best known for The Log of a Cowboy (1903), he helped preserve the everyday world of the late frontier in plain, vivid prose.
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