Fat Tuesday (1997) (edit title/settings)

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• Lieutenant Burke Basile: Narcotics Division, NOPD.
• Patrick (Pinkie) Duvall: Prominent defense attorney; drug dealer; over bearing husband of Remy.
• Sister Beatrice: Head Mistress, Blessed Heart Academy attended by Flarra.
• Dredd Michoud: Former NOPD officer; Basille's old friend, owns fishing/general store in the bayou.
• Remy Duvall: Wife of Pinkie Duvall.
• Captain Douglas (Doug) Patout: Commander, Narcotics and Vice, NOPD.
• Errol: Security officer for Pinkie; Remy's bodygaurd.
• Wayne Bardo: Duvall's henchman.
• Mac McCuen: New narcotics officer, NOPD; wife = Toni.
• Flarra Lambeth: Remy's younger sister.
• Barbara Burke: Burke's unhappy wife.
• Nanci Stuart: Detective Stuart's wife.
• Roland Sachel: Drug dealer.
• Del Ray Jones: Loan shark; beholding to Duvall.
• Angel Lambeth: Remy and Flarra's deceased hooker mother.
• Joe Basile: Burke's brother.
• Detective Sergeant Kevin Michael Stuart: NOPD officer; Burke's friend; killed in the line of duty.
• Gregory James: NOPD snitch; had been charged with indecent exposure.
• Fathers Kevin and Gregory: Pseudonymous for Burke and Kevin.
• Raymond Hahn: Dirty undercover cop, NOPD.
• Roman: Duvall's butler.
• Dixie and Isobel: Hookers.
• Ruby Bouchereaux: Third generation Madam.
• District Attorney Littrell: District Attorney, New Orleans.
• Jack: Add a description of this character.
• David
• Dr. Caruth: Remy's gynecologist.

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• “The escalating tourist trade was rapidly destroying the uniqueness of New Orleans, which was the attraction that caused tourist to flock to the city in the first place. It was a paradox that defied logic.”

• “... once trained in Catholicism, one never forgets.”

• “After their marriage, he had taught her all a woman really needed to know, and that was how to please a man. He selected her clothes, her shoes, her jewelry. He tailored her for himself, created her for his exclusive use.”

• “Even in the finest homes in southern Louisiana, it was a challenge to stay ahead of the corrosive effects of living at sea level.”

• “True, adultery was a popular, acceptable sin.”

• “He was awkward, clumsy even. But ravenous men eat gracelessly.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New Orleans, LA
• Blessed Heart Academy
• Galveston, TX
• Jenny's House: Fictitious charity.
• Jackson, MS

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Sandra Brown (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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