Murder Bound, Chapter iii

Murder Bound.

Yamamura investigates not as yet a murder but a man overboard. However, Chapter iii follows:

Conrad Lauring, who had been the single passenger on the Valborg;
Oddvar Finsen, the radioman;
Diana Lestrange, a girlfriend of Finsen;
Judith Mendel, Diana's roommate, introduced to Lauring.

Someone has tried to contact Lauring:

"Probably the detective whom [Captain] Matthiesen had expected the company would hire..." (p. 26)

- so Yamamura is decidedly off-stage for the time being.

Finsen's pre-date advice to Lauring:

"'Hint that if she really wants, you'll also show her the knife scar you got fighting that hashish-crazed lascar in mysterious Oojasquong. Works like magic.'" (p. 27)

I have googled "lascar" because we might need to know what it is and "hashish" because we might want to know more about it. "Oojasquong" is too mysterious for Google!

Evocative place names abound:

Marseilles (Finsen pretends to be American when there)
North Beach (Finsen describes it as the Bohemian quarter)
Ocean Beach
Golden Gate Park
Lincoln Park
Geary Street
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