Who killed Walter Wanderwell? Grant introduces us to a globe-trotting cast with entirely too many aliases, starting with the irreverent Nell Miller, continuing to the self-styled explorer Captain Walter Wanderwell, and detouring through the fabulously odd heiress Harriet White Fisher. Yet the true scene-stealer, in more ways than one, is Idris Hall, the six-foot Canadian teenager who reinvented herself as Aloha Wanderwell. A woman as singular as her adopted name, Aloha slid behind the wheel of a Ford Model T at sixteen, logged more miles than most men of her era, and turned the camera on every border she crossed. Wander with her through deserts, rail-lined steppe, and Amazonian riverbeds; fall in and out of love as recklessly as she did; and discover how a suitcase full of film reels made her both a legend and a key suspect when Captain Wanderwell ended up dead. Travel the world, love with abandon, snap the proof along the way, meet Aloha Wanderwell, and the mystery that still clings to her tires.

00:00:00 Catch-Up

00:20:20 Wanderlust

00:23:03 Brains, Beauty, Breeches

00:29:55 Meet Captain Walter

00:41:36 Nell vs. Walter vs. Aloha

00:59:58 Harriet the Chauffeured “Explorer”

01:09:08 Aloha Marries, Drives, Conquers

01:29:00 Murder on the Karma

01:44:41 Aloha’s Second Act

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