"When Nancy, Bess and George travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to the Mardi Gras they are enveloped in a mystery involving a haunted showboat. Nancy unravels the mystery involving an imposter and a search for pirate's gold." [x]
- The bomb in Nancy's car is such a serious incident yet the girls seem to shake it off as nothing but an inconvenience.
- I'm surprised Mr. Drew would buy Nancy such a flashy car that's easy to spot. Being a detective you'd think a subtle car that blends in would be the smart choice.
- The second the girls find out Uncle Rufus is a voodoo doctor they start to think he must be holding secret voodoo meetings on the old showboat and is responsible for scaring away visitors. This is such a leap.
- I'm surprised Nancy doesn't consider Charles a suspect. As a spurred lover of Donna Mae he has plenty of reason for wanting to sabotage the showboat thus ruining her engagement announcement.
- Both restaurants mentioned in this book, Antoines and Broussards, are still in existence and have pretty good reviews. Makes me think how fun it'd be going to all the real life restaurants Nancy's been to.
- Donna Mae is really obnoxious with the way she threatens to get the Emerson boys there with jealousy and tries to waylay the girls from making it to dinner at Charles by conveniently running out of gasoline while out in a launch. The way Nancy just jumps overboard into the Mississippi river and swims to shore was hilarious. I love that Nancy was not going to put up with her shenanigans.
- Interesting that Charles had been shot at twice but Nancy doesn't gets shot at. Also Charles says he's been shot at twice by a mysterious sniper and the girls don't seem to care much. Why is no one freaking out?
- Nancy and Ned discover the pirate gold so quickly that there is no way it wouldn't have been discovered before.
- It annoyed me that we didn't find out Alex's real name.
Overall this book was alright. There wasn't as much time spent on the showboat as you would think there would be. For example in the book Patty Duke and the Chinese Junk, Patty and the gang are trying to stop an old ship from being vandalized in the night so they sleep aboard the ship. Nancy should have spent a night on the Showboat.
One of the things that does make me like this book is, interestingly enough, Alex. He's a unique criminal; he lied and wanted to steal the pirate gold but did truly plan on marrying Donna Mae and being in upper class society. Is it too much of a stretch to think that his crimes were committed simply to give him the foundation to build a better life? I dunno, but I like the guy.
Also the illustration below always makes me think of this photo of Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
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