The Indigo Necklace

by Frances Crane

Overview

In wartime New Orleans, a crime-solving couple looks into an heiress’s death in a tale of “family skeletons, bittersweet romance, and [deft] sleuthing” (Saturday Review).
 
Marine Lt. Pat Abbott is currently stateside, posted in New Orleans, where the French Quarter is packed with wartime crowds seeking a bit of entertainment. But when Jean finds a body at the home of the prominent old Creole family with whom the couple is staying, Pat must return to his civilian role of private investigator as the pair become entangled with an assortment of aristocrats and quirky characters . . .
 
Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
“One of the more interesting married teams of detectives . . . A sort of globetrotting Nick and Nora.” —Thrilling Detective
 
“Pleasant reading.” —The New York Times
 
“[A] lively, well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504075411
Publisher:	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Publication date:	07/05/2022
Series:	The Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	239
Sales rank:	944,920
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Frances Crane (1890–1981) was an American author and former writer for the New Yorker. She was invited to leave Nazi Germany in the late 1930s after writing a number of unfavorable articles about Hitler. After settling in Taos, New Mexico, Crane introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of twenty-six volumes, each with a color in the title, with settings around the country and globe.