Title: The colonel's tale
Subtitle: A Dassas Cormier Mystery
Description: Marshall's Bayou Police Chief Dassas Cormier lands in the middle of a dangerous puzzle when he goes to Lake Charles to fetch his sister Coralee home for Thanksgiving in 1924. And why does so much of what's going on seem to be connected to a famous writer whose life may be even more fictitious than his stories?

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Subjects: Fiction, Cajuns, Nineteen twenties, Authors, Police chiefs, mystery
Places: Lake Charles (La.), Louisiana