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  “I’ll leave it up front for Sidney,” she said, and drifted outside.

  By candlelight, Edward and Wendell began poking about their new digs. Edward, mystified about how he had lost possession of his American Express card, stumbled upon a yellowing issue of a magazine called Gambit that had a map of Lee Harvey Oswald landmarks. Wendell discovered the Merlot.

  “I like this place,” Edward said, tossing the magazine aside.

  “Do you think they know we’re here?” Wendell asked, seeking a corkscrew.

  “I wonder if she’ll bring back my card.”

  “Shall I close the door?”

  “Never mind.” Edward uncorked the bottle he was handed and dropped the lead foil to the floor. He moved into the sunlight washing through the doorway, leaned against the wall and sighed. “Let’s just let it happen.”

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  About The Author

  TONY DUNBAR is a lawyer and the author of the Tubby Dubonnet mystery series set in New Orleans. The seventh episode, Tubby Meets Katrina, was the first novel set in the city to be published after the storm. He is the winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, and his mysteries have been nominated for the Anthony and the Edgar Allen Poe “Edgar” Awards. He has also written nonfiction books about the South and civil rights and has lived for more than thirty years in this beautiful and complicated city.

  Table of Contents

  Praise

  More Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries

  Other Books by Tony Dunbar

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Contents

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 20

  CHAPTER 21

  CHAPTER 22

  CHAPTER 23

  CHAPTER 24

  CHAPTER 25

  CHAPTER 26

  CHAPTER 27

  CHAPTER 28

  CHAPTER 29

  CHAPTER 30

  CHAPTER 31

  CHAPTER 32

  CHAPTER 33

  CHAPTER 34

  CHAPTER 35

  Acknowledgments

  Guarantee

  Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries

  Other Books by Tony Dunbar

  About The Author

  Table of Contents

  Praise

  More Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries

  Other Books by Tony Dunbar

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Contents

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 20

  CHAPTER 21

  CHAPTER 22

  CHAPTER 23

  CHAPTER 24

  CHAPTER 25

  CHAPTER 26

  CHAPTER 27

  CHAPTER 28

  CHAPTER 29

  CHAPTER 30

  CHAPTER 31

  CHAPTER 32

  CHAPTER 33

  CHAPTER 34

  CHAPTER 35

  Acknowledgments

  Guarantee

  Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries

  Other Books by Tony Dunbar

  About The Author