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Name: The Sandalwood Fan
Author: Katherine Wigmore Eyre

📘 The Sandalwood Fan by Katherine Wigmore Eyre

Home for lovely young Nan Allen was always the gloomy San Francisco mansion where she had spent her orphaned childhood, watched over by the faithful family servant, Ah Sam. Then Ah Sam died, leaving to Nan only a delicate Oriental fan. Lost, adrift, unsure of her feelings for the handsome lawyer who said he loved her, Nan fled to the estate of her beautiful, distant cousin Elizabeth in Hawaii. Little did Nan suspect that the warm embrace of welcome would turn into a tightening ring of terror . . . and that in this sunlit paradise her safety was as fragile as the mysterious fan that was her passport into danger—and her one hope of escape. . . .

First publish date: 1968

Authors: Katherine Wigmore Eyre

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