Shiveree

What could possibly go wrong at a wedding? Sleuthing couple Claire and Dan Claiborne's best friends, Charlotte and Foley, are getting married on Christmas Eve, and all hell threatens to break loose, even before the shiveree starts! Set in one of New Orleans' swankiest hotels, the wedding promises to be a society event until Charlotte's relatives, the swamp Daltons begin battling with the society Daltons, and then the groom's ex-wife shows up. -- Sophie Dunbar, as always, brings the glitter and color of New Orleans to life in this rich gumbo of swanky society, swamp culture and juicy murder

I don't believe that you'd care a cent if she did marry a Dutchman! She might as well as to marry some white folks I know. Samuel Anderson made no reply. It would be of no use to reply. Shrews are tamed only by silence. Anderson had long since learned that the little shred of influence which remained to him in his own house would disappear whenever his teeth were no longer able to shut his tongue securely in. So now, when his wife poured out this hot lava of argumentum ad hominem, he closed the teeth down in a dead-lock way over the tongue, and compressed the lips tightly over the teeth, and shut his finger-nails into his work-hardened palms. And then, distrusting all these precautions, fearing lest he should be unable to hold on to his temper even with this grip, the little man strode out of the house with his wife's shrill voice in his ears.

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