When Victor Grant, a private investigator, gets a call from Detective Captain Walt Ritter from the San Francisco Police Department he gets an offer he can’t refuse. As a former police detective with the SFPD, Victor and Walt are old friends. The assignment seems simple. A wealthy widowed relative of Walt’s wants a bodyguard to escort her on a very secretive trip to Hawaii where she plans to buy something. She won’t divulge what it is, but she is a well-known art collector, so it’s assumed it’s a valuable art object.

In 1937 San Francisco, during the great depression, a private investigator like Victor Grant doesn’t get many offers like this. While many people suffered financially during that era, even in bad times there are always the wealthy who are unaffected. Sometimes more money equals more trouble you can get yourself into and when that happens people often turn to a private investigator like Victor Grant… a man familiar with working in the grey areas between legal and illegal.

A trip to Hawaii on a Matson line ship, the offer to pay a large retainer, double his usual daily fee and a bonus if he gets her back to San Francisco alive is something Vic can’t pass up. The simple assignment becomes complicated very quickly after he meets the very attractive wealthy widow and finds that her beautiful daughter and Max, a large Maine Coon cat, will be accompanying them on the voyage. The dynamics between the mother, daughter and Vic become complicated quickly.

Mix in some intrigue, an odd group of ship passengers who seem to know more about what’s actually going on than Vic, a few murders, Honolulu and San Francisco Police, the FBI and you have the case of the Dragon Eyes.

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