Most Popular Books by Frances Parkinson Keyes

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Gray Homestead" by Frances Parkinson Keyes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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.

In 1946, Francesca Cabrine was canonized as the first saint of the United States. This Vision Book tells the exciting story of this missionary from Italy who came to America to spread the Faith and to found the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

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

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.

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

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

Romance, murder, and intrigue in London.

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

Lady Blanche''s FarmQueen Anne''s Lace.

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

Family life in a typical New Hampshire village.

The background of this lavish novel is the National Capital. Here indeed all that glitters is not gold. The shifting scenes are furnished by the startling changes which take place as the extravagant twenties are succeeded by the lean thirties, which in turn usher in the chaotic forties.

A hagiography of Our Lady of Guadalupe also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe. Frances Parkinson Keyes tells the story of the miraculous apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 to a humble Nahuan named Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac, Mexico.