Dinner At Antoine's
New York: Julian Messner, 1948. Hardcover. Hardcover. 365 pp. Very good in tattered, price clipped dust jacket. no indication of edition. Orson Foxworth, thedaring, unscrupulousd president of the Great blue Fleet, celebrates his return to New Orleans after a long abscence in Cnetral America, by giving a dinner in the unique 1840 Room at Antoine's world famous restaurant. The dinner is ostensibly planned to present his charming niece Ruth Avery, who has come from Washington D.C. for Carnival festivities and to assure for her the romance that has eluded her. At the dinner Odile, the daughter of Foxworth's beautiful widow romantic interest, spills a glass of red wine down the front of her white dress. The incident is passed off lightly but thirty hours later Odile is found dead in her bedroom, with a strange pistol and an ambiguous note on the floor beside her. Very Good / good. Item #E33669
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