title: Twenty Years In The Caribbean: Caribbean Island (true) Stories
author:  Pete Brand 
description: Born in Miami the author came back from military service as a US Navy pilot and earned a Juris Doctor in Law from the U. of Florida. He practiced law in downtown Miami then moved to Palm Beach County where he formed a residential development company with
zlib_text: A Caribbean Mystery
  
  A Caribbean Mystery
  A Caribbean Mystery
  
  A Caribbean Mystery
  
  Chapter 1
  MAJOR PALGRAVE TELLS A STORY
  “Take all this business about Kenya,” said Major Palgrave. “Lots of chaps gabbing away who
  know nothing about the place! Now I spent fourteen years of my life there. Some of the best years of
  my life, too.”
  Old Miss Marple inclined her head. It was a gentle gesture of courtesy. Whilst Major Palgrave
  proceeded with the somewhat uninteresting recollections of a lifetime, Miss Marple peacefully
  pursued her own thoughts. It was a routine with which she was well acquainted. The locale varied. In
  the past, it had been predominantly India. Majors, Colonels, Lieutenant-Generals-and a familiar
  series of words: Simla, Bearers, Tigers, Chota, Hazri-Tiffin, Khitmagars, and so on. With Major
  Palgrave the terms were slightly different. Safari. Kikuyu. Elephants. Swahili. But the pattern was
  essentially the same. An elderly man who needed a listener so that he could, in memory, re