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Princeville resident and Kauai radio old-timer Ashman has hammered together an anecdotal look at the Garden Island, back when it seemed to be on the edge of the world.
Shouldn't the title be "A Hawaiian Mystery"? Atkinson's ethnic crime mystery is laced with romantic-novel entanglements, which is actually a pretty entertaining chop suey of a tale.
Nobody does these grand, illustrated histories of local technology better than Simpson, and teaming up with train buff Chiddix, he's produced everything you've ever wanted to know about the famous Hawaii train line. OK, it's for buffs, but buffs will swoon over it.
"Kauai -- As It Was in the 1940s and '50s"
by Mike Ashman
(University of Hawaii Press, $36.95)
"Primitive Secrets -- An Hawaiian Mystery"
by Deborah Turner Atkinson
(Poisoned Pen, $24.95)
"Next Stop Honolulu!"
by Jim Chiddix and MacKinnon Simpson
(Sugar Cane, $59.95)
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