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A classic whodunit, originally published in 1946, follows the plucky New Orleans reporter Margaret Slone as she tries to solve the murder of a womanizing surgeon. 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,

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Author

Stone, Elisabet M.

Publisher

M. Evans & Company, Incorporated

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590774649

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller