The Stingaree Murder by W. Shepard Pleasants
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Overview: Murder mystery aboard an incapacitated houseboat in the Louisiana marshes. Offers a baffling impossible crime a la locked room mystery novels.
Synopsis:
The game’s afoot when Mr. Leonard Reade invites a part of his well-to-do friends and acquaintances aboard the Terrapin, a houseboat, scudding across the Louisiana marsh country – while throwing out fishing lines to capture some of its native inhabitants. The impressive guest list consists of Harvey and Marie Reade (son and daughter of the host), Wayne Whitsell (their young friend and dense narrator), Mr. Pierre Lacroix (Governor of Louisiana), Paul Green (his bodyguard), J.D. Henderson (a friend and noted lawyer of the host), General Pitt and his wife, Mr. Archibald Hurley (Louisiana’s Commissioner of Conservation) and O’Niel Henry (city editor of Mr. Reade’s New Orleans Herald) – as well as the servant Needle and the engineer Si Ling.
Governor Lacroix is a character who caught my interest because his description, as a ruler rather than a servant of the public, which reminded me of Huey "Kingfish" Long – who was Louisiana’s governor when this book was penned and assassinated in 1935 when he was a U.S. senator. The governor in this book is on the verge of introducing a controversial piece of legislation that will break the back of the illegal rum runners in his state and as a result he’s been receiving death-threats from a gang leader known only as The Stingaree!
Genre: Mystery, Crime
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