Island Heritage Insurance (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part Twenty-Seven)

Island Heritage Insurance was not a huge company. There were seven agents housed in a two-story building on Fort Street. After…

Maternity Leave

He was almost to the hospital lobby when the blackout happened. Fortunately, as does nearly every hospital, Queen’s has a back-up…

“David.” Yamamoto pulled Chan out of his marriage license mind wandering. “Take a look at this.” Yamamoto laid a sheet of paper…

My father was drafted into active service in the U.S. Army on February 24, 1941. Exactly one year later, on…

Deciding it would be better not to do so, Chan did not mention to Yamamoto that Nina Goo had called…

I remember when Preparation H was the most shoplifted item from Longs. I found this out the hard way late one…

Chan had a second beer, then lay down to try to get some sleep. He had a bad feeling sleep would…

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held…

Chan sat on his lānai sucking on a Primo beer, looking out over the Honolulu city lights. There was no doubt…

i.My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you,a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we…

The Elite crew had gone to a plate-lunch truck several blocks away. The boss, Chris Smart, had forgone lunch to catch…

i.You grow a green world, have a green thumb, I see,and I gladly enter into your loamy scented Eden,hung with…

Just then Captain Kauhane came over. “Guys, sorry to dump another folder on you, but I think we’ve got something related…

I can still picture the pair of fuzzy dice swingingfrom my little orange Karmann Ghia’s rearview mirror.I never knew whether to…

Just as his father and his grandfather had been, Lieutenant David Chan was acknowledged as the best detective in the…

i.I don’t know if it was the auburn hair with golden highlights,or the bright red lipstick smile, the dashing scarf…

Chan’s anger rose again. Who was Yamamoto to question him? “David,” said Yamamoto, “what’s her alibi for yesterday?” Chan’s anger shifted…

I can hardly say I lived by a frozen lake, on cigarettes and beer,my diet at night, when I’d hear…

All the way back to the station Chan took deep breaths, tried to calm himself. Even as he sought to clear…

Eventually we may all sort of maybe guess at whatour reviews were, what they might have said about usover the…