title: Louisiana Longshot: A Miss Fortune Mystery (Volume 1)
author:  Jana DeLeon 
description: Jana DeLeon grew up among the bayous and small towns of southwest Louisiana. She's never actually found a dead body or seen a ghost, but she's still hoping. Jana started writing in 2001 after attending a funeral, but that's a whole other story. She focuses on murderous plots set deep in the Louisiana bayous and the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of small towns.
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  # Strange True Stories of Louisiana
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Washington Cable
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANA.
  
  
    
  HOW I GOT THEM. 1882-89.
  
  
    
  THE YOUNG AUNT WITH WHITE HAIR. 1782.
  
  
    
  THE ADVENTURES OF FRANCOISE AND SUZANNE. 1795.
  
  
    
  I.
  
  
    
  II. MAKING UP THE EXPEDITION.
  
  
    
  III. THE EMBARKATION.
  
  
    
  IV. ALIX CARPENTIER.
  
  
    
  V. DOWN BAYOU PLAQUEMINE—THE FIGHT WITH WILD
  
  
  NATURE.
  
  
    
  VI. THE TWICE-MARRIED COUNTESS.
  
  
    
  VII. ODD PARTNERS IN THE BOLERO DANCE.
  
  
    
  VIII. A BAD STORM IN A BAD PLACE.
  
  
    
  IX. MAGGIE AND THE ROBBERS.
  
  
    
  X. ALIX PUTS AWAY THE PAST.
  
  
    
  XI. ALIX PLAYS FAIRY.—PARTING TEARS.
  
  
    
  XII. LITTLE PARIS.
  
  
    
  XIII. THE COUNTESS MADELAINE.
  
  
    
  XV. THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAT.
  
  
    
  XVI. THE BALL.
  
  
    
  XVII. PICNIC AND FAREWELL.
  
  
  SALOME MUELLER, THE WHITE SLAVE.
  
  
    
  I. SALOME AND HER KINDRED.
  
  
    
  II. SIX MONTHS AT ANCHOR.
  
  
    
  III. FAMI