The Mardi Gras Mystery

After accompanying your uncle to a ball at the mysterious House of Blood, you're left in the ballroom alone. You decide what happens next.

When Nancy and her friends travel to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Nancy is confronted by a baffling art theft—and exposes a terrible secret.

The Mardi Gras Mystery is a mystery novel by author H. Bedford-Jones. Ever since the first ball of the year by the Twelfth Night Club, the Midnight Masquer, as he was termed, had held New Orleans gripped in terror, fascination, and vivid interest with his holdups and subsequent robbery of partygoers. Until a month previous to the week of Mardi Gras he had operated rarely; he had robbed with a stark and inelegant forcefulness, a brutality. Suddenly his methods changed—he appeared and transacted his business with a romantic courtesy, a daredevil gaiety; his robberies became bizarre and extraordinary. But the Midnight Masquer now fears that the wealthy lawyer and astute chess player, Jachin Fell might be on to him and he moves to protect his secret...

Randolph is back, and this time it's to save Mardi Gras! It's Randolph's first time at a Mardi Gras parade, and the little coonhound and his best friend, Olivia, are having the time of their lives. Until . . . Oh no! Disaster strikes! A masked bandit tries to ruin Mardi Gras, and Olivia is sure her outing to the parade is over. Randolph, the cutest, most curious puppy, would do anything to see his best friend smile. He knows that it's up to him to save the day! Together the pair takes off in search of the only thing that can get the parade back on track. What's that thing, you ask? Follow along to see if the Mardi Gras mystery gets solved! Randolph learns lessons about friendship, intertwined with a little Louisiana tradition in this adventure that will have readers exclaiming, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"

A SIMMERING WHODUNIT It's Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana--and deposits the body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B and B--the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. Maggie Crozat is determined to discover the man's identity and find out why he was murdered. Then a judge for the Miss Pelican Mardi Gras Gumbo Queen pageant is shot, and Maggie is convinced that the deaths are connected. Does someone covet the pageant crown enough to kill for it? Or could the deaths be related to the opening of a controversial exhibit about the historic Louisiana Orphan Train? The leads are thin on this Fat Tuesday--and until the killer is unmasked, no one in Pelican is safe.

Everyone thinks a ghost is the thief, but Nancy is on the case! A masked Mardi Gras ball turns spooky when revelers are tormented by a what they think are ghosts. When Deirdre Shannon’s antique tiara is snatched Nancy is certain the crook is a guest--not a ghoul.