Kurzbeschreibung:

Alan Saxon flies to Honolulu to act as best man at the wedding of a close friend, Donal Dukelow, an American golfer who has always beaten Saxon in play - offs. In the party are the grooms mother, who hates the idea of her son marrying a Hawaiian beauty so much younger than him, and Dukelows first wife, Heidi, a keen golfer and admirer of Saxon. Troubles start when Saxon and Heidi play a round on the Ko Olina course.
Things get rapidly worse that evening when Saxon and Dukelow have a meal together. They go on to a nightclub with disastrous results. Though Saxon manages to carry his friend back to the hotel, he finds him brutally murdered in his bed next morning. Since Dukelow has joked that he wanted Saxon there as a bodyguard, the latter feels guilty - especially when he realizes how easily he was duped.
To solve the crime and avenge his friend, Saxon has to investigate the Kaheiki family into which Dukelow was about to marry. When he lifts the stones, he does not like what he finds underneath them and he is soon in jeopardy himself. In addition to calming Heidi, consoling Dukelows mother, keeping the police off his back, following his own lines of inquiry and dealing with the violent Nick Kaheiki, he has to keep one step ahead of two people who seem intent on killing him.
Honolulu Play - Off is a racy golf mystery with an intriguing Hawaiian cocktail of murder, suspense, decption, and family conflict. Its the sixth novel in the Alan Saxon series.
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From Booklist
Miles latest Alan Saxon novel is the sixth in a series that never quite lives up to its promise. This time touring pro and golf-course designer Saxon journeys to Hawaii to attend the secret wedding of a fellow golfer. It quickly becomes clear that someone doesnt want the wedding to happen and is willing to kill to stop it. Saxon, thrust into the role of key witness and possible suspect, naturally tries his hand at investigation. The crime plot, involving a powerful Honolulu family, unwinds effectively, but the golf is mainly in the background, and Miles, who also writes historical mysteries as Edward Marston, continues to suffer from clunky dialogue. Still, he keeps the narrative moving well enough to keep our minds off most of the flaws. Bill Ott
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About the Author
Keith Miles has written four golf mysteries, and two architectural mysteries, set in America during the Depression and featuring Frank Lloyd Wright. As Edward Marston, Keith Miles has written over thirty mysteries, the majority of which have an historical setting. As Marston, he has also written forty original plays for radio, television and the theater; worked as an actor and a theater director; and been Chairman of the Crime Writers Association in the U.K. A frequent visitor to the States, he is an accomplished lecturer, raconteur and after-dinner speaker.