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Description edit
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her client's keepsakes she finds a tip of her own-about a murder...
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Characters/People edit
- Carmela Bertrand: Owner of Memory Mine, a scrapbook business in the French Quarter of New Orleans, LA.
- Ava Grieux: Formerly Marianne Sommersby, she runs a slightly tacky voodoo shop
- Rhonda Lee Clayton: Jimmy Earl Clayton's wife
- Jimmy Earl Clayton: Found near death on one of the Pluvius floats during Mardi Gras.
- Jekyl Hardy: Chief designer of Pluvius floats and a dear friend of Carmela's
- Shamus Meechum: Carmela's husband who up and left her over a year ago
- Gabby Mercer-Morris: Carmela's young assistant at Memory Mine
- Jack Dumaine: One of the senior partners with Jimmy Earl Clayton at Clayton Crown Enterprises
- Granger Rathbone: Homicide detective
- Ned Toler: Owns a boat place in Barataria Bayou and can get a message to Shamus for a six-pack of Dixie Beer
- Madame Roux: Fortune teller and tarot card reader
- Dace Wilcox: Member of Concert in the Parks Committee and denies knowing Shamus
- Stuart Mercer-Morris: Gabby's husband of 2 months
- Alyse Eskew: Claiborne Club's event coordinator
- Michael Theriot: Co-owner of a property management company
- Glory Meechum: Shamus's older sister
- Baby Fontaine: A fifty-something woman who is friends with Tandy and Byrle.
- Ruby Dumaine: Wife of Jack Dumaine
- Shelby Clayton: One of the frontrunner candidates for Pluvius queen
- Byrle Coopersmith: A newbie scrapbooker
- Cece Goodwin: Darwin Bliss' sister-in-law and nurse at St. Ignatius Hospital
- Swan Dumaine: One of the frontrunner candidates for Pluvius queen
- Darwin Bliss: Tandy's husband
- Tandy Bliss: A scrapbooking fanatic
- Dawn Bodine: Baby's daughter
- Buddy Bodine: Dawn's husband
- Donna Mae Dupres: Tireless fund-raiser and chairman of Saint Cyril's Cemetery Preservation Society
- Hop Pennington: Employee at Trident Property Management
- Barty Haywood: Antique dealer whose shop is next-door to Memory Mine
- Ricky DeMott: Ava's date during Mardi Gras
- Bufford Maple: Opinionated boor of a columnist with the Times-Picayune
- Zelda Coopersmith: Byrle's mother-in-law and the queen bee of the New Orleans Garden Club
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First Sentence edit
CARMELA Bertrand spun out a good fifteen inches of gold ribbon and snipped it off tidily.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 9 in Scrapbooking Mystery. (standard series)
Followed by Photo Finished.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Laura Childs (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 2003
ISBN: 978-0425190746
Page Count: 244
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 2003
ISBN: 978-0425190746
Page Count: 244
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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