The Seamstress of New Orleans Diane McPhail

Alice Butterworth's husband disappeared so she leaves Chicago and moves to New Orleans. She teaches sewing lessons at an orphanage. Constance Halstead recently lost her husband, who was deep in debt to some unsavory characters. Constance tells Alice that she can lodge with her if she helps sew a ball gown for Mardi Gras. But what of the unsavory characters who killed her husband...