Hawaiian Noir

Murder Calls

Last The House Without A Key The Halekulani is a world-class hotel on Waikiki Beach near the Fort DeRussey end of Waikiki. It is located on the former site of a beach house at which novelist Earl Derr Biggers stayed and became the setting for the first Charlie Chan mystery, The House Without A Key. To …

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Revising in Three Acts All stories have three acts, so says Aristotle in Poetics. Who am I to argue with Aristotle? What are the three acts? We could simply call them beginning, middle, and end, but that doesn’t tell us anything. Everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end—a vacation, a dinner, a war, …

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