num_pages: 352
description: MURDER MARDI GRAS--AND MORE SECRETS THAN BEADS...It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual mistreated son Henry? Helpless alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies...Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo Hinky and Cookie and using her white glove contacts the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for herand doom for the St. Amants.
language: English
title: New Orleans Mourning
publisher: booksBnimble