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Julie Smith

The Edgar Awards Revisited: New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (Best Novel; 1991)

By Angie Barry

September 20, 2019

Perusing the list of Edgar winners, trying to decide which I wanted to tackle for this retrospective, New Orleans Mourning jumped out almost immediately thanks to its utterly gonzo synopsis: It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of…

The killer is more mysterious than usual during a Mardi Gras Murder!

Murder Mardi Gras Style

By Deborah Lacy

February 7, 2013

Mardi Gras is the ultimate festival for food, fun, and mayhem, which also makes it the perfect time and place for a fictional murder or two. While Mardi Gras (also called Carnival in some countries) means “Fat Tuesday” in French, it really describes the entire season from Epiphany (January 6) to Mardi Gras day, the…

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