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The Mysteries of New Orleans

Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868825
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of New Orleans written by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason -- a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman -- for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

The Mysteries of New Orleans

Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801877695
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of New Orleans written by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most scandalous books published in America at the time. "Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side . . . This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century."—from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason—a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman—for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

New Orleans Noir

Author : Ted O'Brien
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070391
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Noir written by Ted O'Brien and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original anthology of noir fiction set across the Big Easy includes new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Maureen Tan, and more. New Orleans has always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, and the heartless con artist. And in post-Katrina times, it’s the same old story—only with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. In other words, it’s fertile ground for noir fiction. This sparkling collection of tales, set both before and after the storm, explores the city’s gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming “sliver by the river,” its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the city’s darkly colorful, nineteenth century past. New Orleans Noir includes brand-new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, David Fulmer, Jervey Tervalon, James Nolan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Maureen Tan, Thomas Adcock, Jeri Cain Rossi, Christine Wiltz, Greg Herren, Julie Smith, Eric Overmyer, and Ted O’Brien. A portion of the profits from New Orleans Noir will be donated to Katrina KARES, a hurricane relief program sponsored by the New Orleans Institute that awards grants to writers affected by the hurricane.

New Orleans Mourning

Author : Julie Smith
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0804107386
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Mourning written by Julie Smith and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1991 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants.... "Smith is a gifted writer." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Mystery in New Orleans

Author : Collective
Publisher : CIDEB/Black Cat Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788853014153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Mystery in New Orleans written by Collective and published by CIDEB/Black Cat Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two businessmen want to destroy a wildlife reserve in New Orleans and build a shopping center. Mysterious deaths, and an ecological disaster shock the city. Three friends decide to solve this mystery, but can they find the document that will save the wildlife reserve?--Quatrième de couverture.

The Zombie Who Visited New Orleans

Author : Steve Brezenoff
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434227731
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Zombie Who Visited New Orleans written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a class trip to New Orleans, Catalina Cat Duran and her friends find themselves in the middle of a voodoo mystery.

The Key to Murder

Author : Jen Pitts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Key to Murder written by Jen Pitts and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha thought following a mysterious diary around the French Quarter of New Orleans would be a harmless way to learn about her new hometown until it became about murder.As the newest resident of Thibodeaux Mansion, West Coast transplant Samantha is looking forward to starting her thirties in a new place. Drawn to New Orleans for its music, food and history, she's excited to start her future in this unique city. But Samantha is also hopeful she'll find her past since she was adopted from Louisiana after being orphaned in a hurricane as a toddler.An anonymous diary, unusual key, and a distinctive doll are left in her furnished apartment and her mostly friendly neighbors all deny leaving the gifts. Samantha, now Sammy to her new friends, can't believe any of them could be a liar. When the diary leads her to a dead body, Sammy needs to find out what these clues mean and what the murderer is trying to tell her.Although her best friends Sissy and Andrew are happy to help her with this mystery, her other friends aren't sure the murder and diary are about Sammy. Not wanting to lose her newfound friendships and possible love interest, Sammy decides she must uncover the answers on her own.Sammy moved to New Orleans looking for a new future, but is it her past that found her first?The Key to Murder is the first book in the The French Quarter Mysteries featuring West Coast transplant Samantha Richardson settling into her new hometown, New Orleans. Her neighborhood is full of music, food and history as well as interesting people. Join Sammy as she explores the Big Easy by solving the mysteries of the past and present in this new modern, cozy mystery series.

Stay Out of New Orleans

Author : P. Curran
Publisher : Crescent City Press
ISBN 13 : 9780998643182
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Stay Out of New Orleans written by P. Curran and published by Crescent City Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stay Out of New Orleans: Strange Tales A crass tour of feral street life in New Orleans in the 1990's. A lucid walk through the shadows of North America's best and weirdest city, a place that bewitches some visitors and infects others. A bohemia stretching back to the dawn of absinthe. A town of hidden doors, hidden courtyards, and open secrets. Each day a fresh crime eager to happen, transcendent, fertile. Death lurking in every bar. No one knew it was a golden age............ See what the flood washed away... Self published in 2012, Stay Out of New Orleans has become an underground New Orleans cult classic and has gone on to sell a couple of thousand copies strictly by word of mouth and carried in but a couple of local stores. Now re-designed and re-formatted these 13 stories of NOLA 1990's street life will continue to find a new audience of readers-those both enchanted and those repelled by the city.

Fabulous New Orleans

Author : Lyle Saxon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabulous New Orleans written by Lyle Saxon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is rather like a Mardi Gras parade -- a series of impressions. Each chapter is like a decorated car which tells a story. Some of the stories are brave and courageous, others are informative, or amusing, or bizarre, or fantastic. or cruel; but they are all interlocking stories--a pageant of a city...I have not attempted to write history in its strict sense although the main events of the French, Spanish and American Dominations are outlined and several chapters on the new New Orleans have been added."-- from Introduction.

Maid For Murder

Author : Barbara Colley
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758263325
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Maid For Murder written by Barbara Colley and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people, and making the right amount of money (a lot!) It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte La Rue has never really understood. She leads a quiet, simple, practical life--and it suits her just fine. Business is booming at her housecleaning service, Maid-for-a-Day--and in her down time, she loves reading mystery novels and hanging out with her parakeet, Sweety Boy. Everything's perfect. Well, almost everything. . . Charlotte doesn't mind polishing silver, scrubbing toilets, or dusting bookcases--but she can't stand dealing with her rich clients' dirty laundry. And when it comes to the much-talked-about Dubuisson family, there's an awful lot of it--especially since Jackson Dubuisson was found murdered in his study. Now this exclusive enclave is abuzz with all kinds of gossip--and some very sinister speculation. A chatty socialite keeps hinting that Jackson's extra-marital affair may have been the death of him. His mother-in-law--who's quite possibly senile--has revealed more of the Dubuisson family's secrets than Charlotte ever wanted to know. And then there's his widow, Jeanne. Charlotte refuses to desert her in her time of need--but suspects she may have something to hide. One thing is certain: someone wanted Jackson dead--and that someone is not coming clean. . . Surrounded by possible suspects and hounded by a tenacious police detective, Charlotte wishes she could stick to her own policy of staying out of clients' personal business. Problem is, she's never been able to walk away from a mess. And this is the biggest one she's ever seen. . .

The Shop on Royal Street

Author : Karen White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593334590
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Shop on Royal Street written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past—as well as new ones—in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated when the house’s previous occupants don’t seem to be ready to depart. Although she can’t communicate with ghosts like her stepmother can, luckily Nola knows someone in New Orleans who is able to—even if he’s the last person on earth she wants anything to do with ever again. Beau Ryan comes with his own dark past—a past that involves the disappearance of his sister and parents during Hurricane Katrina—and he’s connected to the unsolved murder of a woman who once lived in the old Creole cottage Nola is determined to make her own...whether the resident restless spirits agree or not.

The Mysteries of London

Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of London written by George William MacArthur Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightmare in New Orleans

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671537494
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare in New Orleans written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Drew is in New Orleans to celebrate the opening of an ultrachic Creole restaurant. Frank and Joe Hardy have come to New Orleans to investigate the theft of half a million dollars from a riverboat casino--and the prime suspect is Remy Maspero! Passions are running high in the case, and they're about to run even higher when murder is added to the mix.

Chasing the Devil's Tail

Author : David Fulmer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547416105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Devil's Tail written by David Fulmer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind. No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.

New Orleans Beat

Author : Julie Smith
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780804113366
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Beat written by Julie Smith and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady detective Skip Langdon goes after the killer of Geoffrey Kavanagh, a computer genius. In the process, she learns to navigate The Original Worldwide Network, a country-wide bulletin board service. By the author of Jazz Funeral.

City of Spirits

Author : Eric Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979116551
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book City of Spirits written by Eric Wilder and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas is dealing with a new client and an old curse. Get ready for a ride!

The Gates to the Afterlife

Author : Jen Pitts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Gates to the Afterlife written by Jen Pitts and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy knows the Gates of Guinee Voodoo ceremony should lead to the afterlife, not murder. She has seven days to stop a killer from finishing this now deadly ritual. Westcoast transplant Samantha Richardson has settled into New Orleans. With a budding romance, potential career change, and newfound family, she feels at home in the French Quarter. Sammy is drawn into the history of the city's famous Voodoo queen as she helps her friend, Andrew, with the publication of his new book. Learning about the mysterious ritual Marie Laveau performed to reach the afterlife has Sammy's attention as well as Andrew's readers. The book is sure to be a bestseller until it leads to murder. With one of her best friends accused of the crime, Sammy needs to discover who is framing them. Is someone following in the footsteps of Marie Laveau? Or are they using the Gates to Guinee ritual to cover up a murder? There are seven gates to reach the afterlife. Can Sammy stop the murderer before they kill again? The Gates to the Afterlife is the second book in the The French Quarter Mysteries featuring West Coast transplant Samantha Richardson. Join Sammy as she explores the Big Easy by solving the mysteries of the past and present in this new modern, cozy mystery series.