Rebecca's Pride

Bolivar Manchenil #1

by Donald McNutt Douglass

When the powerful tycoon, Fordyce Wales, mysteriously disappears in the Virgin Islands, Captain Bolivar Manchenil is ordered to investigate.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Donald McNutt Douglass (born Donald Edwin McNutt) was an American architect by profession and author of crime fiction.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was copyrighted in 1956. It is set in the Virgin Islands. I had a hard time deciphering some of the written speech and deciphering some of what I think were probably cultural references of the time and place. There was conflict between rich and poor, black and white, and so on. The previous history between an old white family, a murdered man, and a black police captain complicates solving the murder.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: the scene is the Virgin Islands. Two families are fighting over a homestead, Rebecca's Pride. Murder is included.