A review by becquebooks
Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson Keyes

2.0

For my upcoming New Orleans trip, everyone mentioned this as a classic New Orleans novel. But it's old and creaky. Written in a totally different style. And a black Mammy talking in stereotypical New Orleans dialog. For such a fluff novel it took forever to read. It's technically about a murder, but the murder happens in the third chapter, is not really a very interesting crime and then it gets dragged out and not resolved until the final two chapters. The middle just reads like a lot of society fluff. Blah. It took much longer to read than it should have. However, I want to have a drink at Antoine's. Dinner seems expensive.