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Margaret Slone doesn t like being called Maggie, so that s exactly
what her city editor calls her. Wise-cracking, quick-tempered
Maggie has a nose for news and a finely developed faculty for
finding trouble which begin to operate simultaneously when Ned
McGowan, a brilliant physician and notorious philanderer, is found
dead in his hotel room. The medico claimed that the victim had been
dead for at least fifteen hours as rigor mortis was advanced. But
Maggie knows differently; she had talked to Ned a mere seven hours
before. This strange, unsolved murder catapults Maggie off on a
round of combined news-hawking and detection that takes her all
over New Orleans and deep into the bayous. There is a great maze of
mystery surrounding Ned McGowan s life, further complicated by his
many women enigmatic Lili Cheng, wealthy Marta Dellman, Lucille,
the nurse, and Olivette, not to mention Maggie s own sister,
Vangie, who becomes so suspect she s jailed by the fumbling
Detective Beton. In her quest to get to the bottom of the mystery,
Maggie stumbles across the body of a beautiful young woman in the
gloom of an old French Quarter house. Close on the heels of this
gruesome discovery, she is more perplexed than ever by the sudden
disappearance of a second young woman and the shooting of a man
seemingly as far removed from the case as he is from the moon.
Peppery Maggie Slone must talk her way into trouble and out again
to clear her sister s name and get the real story behind a
completely baffling murder case."
Maggie Slone, fast-talking newspaper reporter, covered a special
assignment in Gaston Villiere's renowned cafe Le Coq d'Or on Mardi
Gras night. Along with a good meal, she got an earful of a
melodramatic conversation at a nearby table. At the table were two
couples. One pair, a blond young man and a green-eyed glamour girl,
have a row and break-up the party. The next day, Maggie is assigned
to cover a suicide-the blond young man of the night before. Odd
circumstances shroud his death and, even as the reporter tries to
fit the puzzle together, the green-eyed Nita is found garroted in a
patio in the French Quarter, just behind the home of the Pacellis,
a poor Italian family. Maggie's attempts to solve the murder carry
her into strange situations, including a powwow with a group of
people which includes one man who seems determined to imprison her.
When little Tina Pacelli is kidnapped, Maggie gets down to brass
tacks and walks smack into trouble, and more murder. The riotous
color of the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the fast-paced excitement of
the newspaper office, and Maggie's talent for trouble are all come
together in this thrilling novel. Events move with lightning speed,
striking into the heart of a man where hate born of hurt has
smoldered for years-finally breaking out in a flame of murder.
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