Honor Killing: How the Infamous “Massie Affair” Transformed Hawai’i

Traces the racially charged rape, kidnapping, and murder trials that kindled social and political transformations in 1930s Hawaii, recounting how the wife of a naval officer in Honolulu accused six islanders of gang rape and how her mother, infuriated by the case’s subsequent hung jury, arranged the murder of one of the suspects. 30,000 first printing.