Skip Langdon · Book 1
New Orleans Mourning
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 10
- ISBN-13
- 9780788734809
- Type
- novel
About this book
New Orleans Mourning opens the Skip Langdon series in 1990 with a Mardi Gras Day murder during the Rex parade, and won Julie Smith the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Novel. It introduces the six-foot, Uptown-born-and-bred detective whose cases keep dragging her back into the New Orleans society she was raised in and rejected.
Its place in Skip Langdon
New Orleans Mourning is book 1 in the Skip Langdon series. It is followed by The Axeman's Jazz. See the full Skip Langdon reading order.
Skip Langdon is a six-foot-tall, Uptown-born-and-bred New Orleans police detective (later homicide lieutenant) who spends the series solving crimes that keep dragging her back into the city's overlapping worlds -- old-money society she was raised in and rejected, Mardi Gras krewes, jazz clubs, and the Quarter's underside -- across eleven novels by Edgar Award-winning author Julie Smith. New Orleans Mourning (1990) opens the series with a Mardi Gras Day murder during the Rex parade and won Smith the 1991 Edgar…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780788734809