Hawaiian story?
Dates: 2/5/01,4:45 PM through 2/6/01,11:06 PM (5 postings)
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FROM: "Tanya Bach" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/5/01, 4:45 PM
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:18:50 -0600
From: "Tanya Bach" <[removed]@mpl.org>
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Subject: Hawaiin story?
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ok, another miracle is needed and the very obscure tidbits of info are as =
follows:
Patron requests to reread a book he really enjoyed quite some time ago, =
(guesses early 90's, but not necessarily a publication date), about a =
badly beaten/raped(?) lady who is found either on the beach in Hawaii, or =
near a Navy ship that was stationed by Hawaii, or she was found by a =
Hawaiian man who was possibly her husband, who ventures off to kill one of =
the offender(s) and later takes off in a canoe.=20
(wow) any takers?=20
Many thanks in advance,=20
Tanya Bach
Library Services Assistant
WI Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1-800-242-8822
414-286-3016
[removed]@mpl.org
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FROM: "Marguerite K. Ashford" <[removed]@punahou.edu>
REC'D: 2/6/01, 4:58 PM
A number of books have been written about the case, and there's been at
least one tv movie. The book usually cited is Theon Wright's Rape in
Paradise, which was originally published in 1966 but was reissued in 1990
(it's nonfiction, by the way, but reads like fiction). Other titles
include Peter Packer's The Massie Case (1966) and Peter Van Slingerland's
Something terrible has happened. Both, I believe, are non-fiction.
Hope this helps your patron. As a librarian fo 25 years who's now an
academic dean, it surely is nice to be able to "listen in" on Fiction_L and
occasionally answer a question!
>
>ok, another miracle is needed and the very obscure tidbits of info are as
follows:
>Patron requests to reread a book he really enjoyed quite some time ago,
(guesses early 90's, but not necessarily a publication date), about a badly
beaten/raped(?) lady who is found either on the beach in Hawaii, or near a
Navy ship that was stationed by Hawaii, or she was found by a Hawaiian man
who was possibly her husband, who ventures off to kill one of the
offender(s) and later takes off in a canoe.
>(wow) any takers?
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>
>Tanya Bach
>Library Services Assistant
>WI Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
>813 West Wells Street
>Milwaukee, WI 53233
>1-800-242-8822
>414-286-3016
[removed]@mpl.org
>
>
Marguerite K. Ashford
Dean [removed]@punahou.edu
Punahou School
1601 Punahou St.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Ph: (808) 943-3217
FROM: Jane Jorgenson <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/6/01, 4:58 PM
Jane Jorgenson
Alicia Ashman Branch - Madison Public Library
Madison, WI
At 12:47 PM 2/6/01 +0000, you wrote:
>This sounds like a version of the Massie case (a true event in which
>occurred in the early 1930s in Hawai'i). Thalia Massie, a Navy wife,
>disappeared from a club for several hours, returning beaten and bruised.
>She claimed she had been raped by 5 local men. Her husband and others went
>after the men she identified (who, it was later proven, could not have been
>guilty), and murdered one of them. The Navy men were defended by Clarence
>Darrow in the murder trial that followed. My recollection is that their
>sentences were served over a period of a few hours in the Governor's
>Office. The Massie case plays a prominent role in the racial and cultural
>history of our islands.
>
>A number of books have been written about the case, and there's been at
>least one tv movie. The book usually cited is Theon Wright's Rape in
>Paradise, which was originally published in 1966 but was reissued in 1990
>(it's nonfiction, by the way, but reads like fiction). Other titles
>include Peter Packer's The Massie Case (1966) and Peter Van Slingerland's
>Something terrible has happened. Both, I believe, are non-fiction.
>
>Hope this helps your patron. As a librarian fo 25 years who's now an
>academic dean, it surely is nice to be able to "listen in" on Fiction_L and
>occasionally answer a question!
>
>
> >
> >ok, another miracle is needed and the very obscure tidbits of info are as
>follows:
> >Patron requests to reread a book he really enjoyed quite some time ago,
>(guesses early 90's, but not necessarily a publication date), about a badly
>beaten/raped(?) lady who is found either on the beach in Hawaii, or near a
>Navy ship that was stationed by Hawaii, or she was found by a Hawaiian man
>who was possibly her husband, who ventures off to kill one of the
>offender(s) and later takes off in a canoe.
> >(wow) any takers?
> >Many thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Tanya Bach
> >Library Services Assistant
> >WI Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
> >813 West Wells Street
> >Milwaukee, WI 53233
> >1-800-242-8822
> >414-286-3016
> [removed]@mpl.org
> >
> >
>Marguerite K. Ashford
>Dean [removed]@punahou.edu
>Punahou School
>1601 Punahou St.
>Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Ph: (808) 943-3217
>
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FROM: Ann Chambers Theis <[removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us>
REC'D: 2/6/01, 5:09 PM
I'm pretty sure Norman Katkov's novel BLOOD AND ORCHIDS (1983) is about
this case, and may have been the basis for a mini series.
Ann Chambers Theis ~ [removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us
Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County Public Library (VA)
Overbooked, a resource for ravenous readers - http://www.overbooked.org
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/6/01, 11:06 PM
<<
I'm pretty sure Norman Katkov's novel BLOOD AND ORCHIDS (1983) is about
this case, and may have been the basis for a mini series. >>
According to IMDB, Blood and Orchids was a TV movie or mini-series (can't
tell) shown in 1986.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
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