Title: Spelling Mississippi
Description: Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night when a woman clad in full evening dress takes a running leap off the wharf into the river. When the woman, whom Cleo has assumed was dead by suicide, reappears a few nights later on the late evening news, Cleo is determined to find her. Both women make some startling self-discoveries and even find romance when Cleo finds the mysterious woman at last.
Subjects: Canadians, Female friendship, Fiction, Women, Self-realization, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.)