The Last Full Measure: A Katy Green Mystery (The Katy Green Mysteries) - Softcover

Glatzer, Hal

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9780970214782: The Last Full Measure: A Katy Green Mystery (The Katy Green Mysteries)

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ISBN 10: 0970214782 ISBN 13: 9780970214782

Publisher: Audio-Playwrights, 2016

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In late November 1941, Swing musician Katy Green joins two old friends in the dance-band onboard the S.S. Lurline, en route to Hawaii. Hidden treasure there could make these working-girls rich, but international intrigue and a looming World War will put them in mortal danger.

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About the Author:

Hal Glatzer is the author of two previous Katy Green mysteries, also awardwinning audioplays. A composer and musician, he was also a newspaper and TV reporter in Hawai’i. Glatzer and his wife live among SF, NYC and the Big Island. AUTHOR:

From Publishers Weekly:

Those who love the music of the big band era will enjoy Glatzer's lightweight third Katy Green historical (after 2004's A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen), which portrays the life of working musicians (or, more often, looking-for-work musicians) with authority and charm. The basic setup has strong dramatic potential: Katy Green, who plays fiddle and alto sax in an all-girl band working on a cruise ship bound for Honolulu in late 1941, is offended by the anti-Japanese racism she encounters in other passengers, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack. But atmosphere and sensitivity by themselves can't carry a weak plot. Make that two weak plots. For this story has two separate plot threads, which never get tied together. One fizzles to a dead end, and seems designed primarily to exhibit the author's knowledge of Hawaiian history. The other, involving several murders aboard ship, rests precariously on the most oblique of motives. Readers who can ignore all this in favor of nostalgia will be rewarded with a pleasant trip. (Apr.)
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