TY - BOOK AU - Keene Carolyn AU - Carolyn Keene TI - The Secret Of The Golden Pavilion SN - 044809536X U1 - Fic. K26s 1987 CY - New York PB - Carolyn Keene KW - he protagonist Mizoguchi's obsessive, destructive, and nihilistic search for beauty and meaning in a post-war, fragmented world KW - explores a deeply fractured moral life, centering on themes of obsessive beauty, nihilism, hypocrisy, and the destruction of innocence. The novel, based on the 1950 arson of Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji by a young monk, Mizoguchi, portrays a protagonist who is isolated, physically frail, and deeply disturbed by the stark contrast between the ideal, eternal beauty of the temple and the ugliness of the mundane world N2 - Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Hawaii to help Mr. Sakamaki protect his inherited estate, Kaluakua. Nancy exposes imposters claiming the estate, uncovers a plot by the "Double Scorps" gang to steal a sacred cape, and investigates a "ghost" ER -