Finding the Midnight Sun

Raymond Chandler meets Robert Louis Stevenson The third novel of the Kerrigan/Seagrove series is set in a richly imagined 1932. Wally, still toiling in the film industrty, is Vice President of the failing United Costumers. At the request of old friend Douglas Fairbanks, he and his mistress Pearl Seagrove travel by oceanliners to Tahiti (one of them a Matson ship), where they stay in a villa built by director F. W. Murnau. The couple try to locate a legendery pearl necklace known as "Midnight Sun," whose recent owners have died or disappeared. They become targets of a mysterious Turtle Cult devoted to an esoteric god named Kiho. Strengthened by the rituals of a native priest, they sail to a deserted island in the Tuamotus to find the "Midnight Sun" and thwart a determined killer.