Murder at the Mardi Gras

Maggie Slone, fast-talking newspaper reporter, covered a special assignment in Gaston Villiere’s renowned café 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, ev...