Victorine // The Gold Slippers — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Victorine -- beautiful, willful, sophisticated -- had returned to her father's magnificent estate in the Deep South. It was a quiet world after a young life of wealth and international travel, but soon she was deeply in love with her handsome neighbor, Prosper Villac. Just as their engagement was to be announced, a telephone call brought news that shook the small Louisiana community. A provocative Cajun beauty at the local dance hall had been murdered -- and Prosper was the primary suspect!