Dark Bahama

Dark Bahama is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was the second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer. The story also features Quale, the head of British intelligence who appears on several other novels by Cheyney. Much of the action takes place in a fictional island in the Bahamas and nearby Miami in Florida.

Synopsis
Johnny Vallon, head of Chennault Investigations, sends out one of his men to the West Indies to bring back a headstrong daughter of a wealthy family. However, things soon to be much more complex and treacherous as they first appear.