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Dinner at Antoine's
Dinner at Antoine's
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Orson Foxworth celebrates his return to New Orleans by giving a dinner in the 1840 Room at Antoine's Restaurant, ostensibly planned to present his niece for the Carnival festivities and to renew his romance with Amelie Lalande. Laland's daughter Odile, accidentally spills a red wine down her white dress, a seemingly light incident. However, it i...  more »
ISBN: 475888
Publication Date: 1948
Pages: 366
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Publisher: Julian Messner, Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is murder mystery to rival Auntie Agatha. Frankly, it is a bit more puzzling with its multiple suspects (all with more than sufficient motive), a provocative setting (uppercrust New Orleans), and a constant shift of suspicion among them to the very end. Check it out; see if you can outguess the author. Antoines, a premier restaurant, provides an opening, closing, and an in-between setting. And food! The major vocation/occupation of most seems to eatparticularly eat out. At least twenty references to dining and a listing of over seventy comestibles. Alexandre Dumas would be proud of our authoress knowledge of Creole cuisine. I havent come across so much since Edna Ferbers Saratoga Trunk. Anyway, who killed Odile St. Amant? Her no-good philandering husband? Her former lover? Her uncle, the sometime mercenary? A jealous sister? Maybe it was mom; sickly Odile was a drag on her love life. Her maid? Or maybe it was some tangential character, such as the old family friend, now a reporter/author. See if you can outmaneuver the police inspector. Too bad that this book has fallen into obscurity.


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