viii+328pp+illus.+folding map. Black cloth with faded spine. Descriptive notes from original dust-jacket are affixed to endpapers. Two small stamps of previous owner's address on e/ps but very clean internally. The incredible Massie affair in Hawaii in 1931 began as a quarrel between a young wife and her naval husband, but ended in violence and death. Thalia Massie accused five Oriental boys of rape. In the aftermath a defendant was killed; Thalia's mother and husband were indicted for murder; the Navy turned against the civil administration and Clarence Darrow was called to defend the boys. The events inflamed racial bitterness and rocked the Government of Honolulu. A vivid reconstruction and possible answer to what really happened.

True Crime Criminology