Kula: A Surfing Detective Mystery

Kula: A Surfing Detective MysteryChip Hughes Softcover, 257 pp. Summoned to the Honolulu hilltop mansion of radio pitchman Barry Buckingham, presumably to trace his missing wife, the Surfing Detective is in for the letdown of his career. Kai Cook is hired to track another lost family member. A dog. Despite his qualms, Kai would seem a natural for the case, since the golden retriever named Kula is a famous surfing dog. Yet the PI knows nothing about finding missing pets. But he does

Bergin maintains a an active veterinarian practice and organized the Paniolo Preservation Society

Native Hawaiians believed Mamaki to be a universal plant with many healing properties

the Cook Islands

and the special bonds that take place between ʻohana (family)

During the 1885 to 1924 immigration period of plantation laborers from Japan to Hawaii

and common

As a privileged spectator and key participant

Possibly the most important work in Hawaiian literature

Duke University Press

This highly illustrated timeline

when he was ten

Junior League of Honolulu