Joan of the Island

{{header | title     = Joan of the Island | author    = |override_author=Ralph Henry Barbour and H. P. Holt | section   = | previous  = | next      = /Chapter 1/ | year      = 1920 | edition = yes | categories = mystery novels / adventure novels / romance novels | notes     = A man literally drops into the ocean … and  bumps into a friendly South Seas island … just in time to save the beautiful young white co-owner from being strangled by a murderous black.And so starts this adventure, involving, among others: her shiftless brother; pearls; an amoral Portuguese who'll stop at nothing including murder. … {Note: If you can't blank out the odd example of casual racism typical of that period, this is probably not the book for you] }}



