Deathday Party — Paula Carter

A Talent for Decoration--and Detection

Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design . . . and Jane Ferguson, an ex--law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes--and decorating disasters--than any other belles of the South.

Local psychic Cassandra Bean has hired Elegance du Sud to supply a banquet in honor of her great aunt--who died several years ago. When Hillary and Jane arrive at the Bean residence, they are told that Cassandra, though young and healthy, has died of a heart attack. The surviving members of the Bean clan insist on having the party anyway--for they fear reprisal from ancestral Beans who haunt the family home. And the list is growing as Uncle Bruce--among others--turns up dead. When a flash flood leaves Hillary and Jane stranded in the house, they find themselves plagued by nocturnal visitors. But they can't really be ghosts . . . can they? To find out, the intrepid caterers must finish the job they were hired to do--and try to avoid being finished off in the process...