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Orson Foxworth celebrates his return to New Orleans by giving a dinner in the 1840 room at Antoines restaurant, ostensibly planned to present his niece for the Carnival festivities and to renew his romance with Amelie Lalande. Laland''s daughter Odile, accidently spills a red wine down her white dress, a seemingly light incident. However, it is recalled thirty hours later when she is found dead with a strange pistol and an ambiguous note on the floor beside her. Though looking like suicide the plot revolves out of proving otherwise. Infused with much history, customs, and mores of New Orleans of the 1940''s. With a new introduction by Patricia Brady setting the history, context of the novel, and with biographical notes on Keyes.

19 Stories Set In Washington, Virginia And New Orleans, With A Tale Of Psychic Experience Set In England.

Biographical novel about a colorful Civil War general of Creole background, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.

Biography of, cult of, songs, poems and canticles of St. Anne.

A historical novel based on the life of Paul Morphy, who is considered to have been the first world chess champion and possibly the strongest chess player in the history of the game. Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans Louisiana. His father was Alonzo Morphy. His mother was Louise Thérèse Felicite Thelcide Le Carpentier. He learned the moves of chess simply by watching his uncle and father play. Nobody taught him the rules. By age 9 he was regarded as the best player in New Orleans. By age 21 he was regarded as the best chess player in the world.

"A best selling author looks back on the fascinating period of her school days and courtship"--Jacket subtitle

The mysterious death of a Louisiana dance-hall girl jeopardizes a young man''s career and his romance.