Murder mystery takes place at the Coco Palms Hotel. It is prior to Elvis Presley coming to the hotel to film Blue Hawaii. The hotel manager Grace Buscher Guslander has to solve a murder of a very famous movie star who died at her hotel drinking a mai tai before the arrival of Paramount's movie production of Blue Hawaii. Grace is afraid that if Hollywood hears of the murder at her hotel, Paramount will cancel their production of Blue Hawaii. It is Ms. Buscher's ingenuity and cleverness and being an avid reader of Agatha Christie novels she is able to solve the murder mystery at her hotel.