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AMATEUR SLEUTH/CAPER/
COZY/CRAFTS/HUMOR/
WHODUNIT
MYSTERY
death swatch
Amid zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks,
scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava are
partying in the French Quarter. It's Mardi Gras, and they
never imagined this might be the scene of a murder, but as the
evening progresses, float designer Archie Baudier is found dead
on the balcony--strangled with a barbed wire garrote. The
only thing wilder than this crime are the theories about who did
it--from a ritualistic slaying to a mob hit to the outlandish
work of a rival Mardi Gras float builder. As Carmela
flirts with handsome detective Edgar Babcock, she also ponders
the odd clues; gold paint on the victim's shoes, a ransacked
apartment, and a glimmering gold doubloon.