A 1001 Midnights Review: NAN HAMILTON – Killer’s Rights.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Susan Dunlap NAN HAMILTON – Killer’s Rights. Sam Ogara #1, Walker, hardcover, 1984. No paperback edition. Nan Hamilton (who is married to mystery novelist John Ball) has written numerous short stories featuring this book’s protagonist, Los Angeles detective Isamu (“Sam”) Ohara. Killer’s Rights is her first novel. An established family man who is successful in his career, Nisei detective Ohara knows the traditional antipathy between Japanese and blacks; Ohara’s new black partner. Ted Washington, deals not only with the possibility of that racial tension but also with the struggle to replace Ohara· s old partner. The racial gangs of the prisons spread their violence outside. When a white drug dealer is stabbed, suspicion falls on the Chicano Nuestra Familia and the Black Guerrilla Family. But the investigation leads Ohara back into the part of Los Angeles he knows best — the Japanese community. Speaking Japanese and understanding the values and standards of…

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