New Orleans

The Magnolia Queen Comes Home

Special case · ~70 min

A sternwheeler docks in the French Quarter after a Mardi Gras charter with its safe wide open and no captain at the wheel. Hours later he crawls out on the far bank, talking about pirates.

Silence at Cypress Bend

Disappearance · ~70 min

A jazz trumpeter heads into the bayou at sunrise to record birdsong for his new album. The airboat comes back without him, and his trumpet is still aboard.

The Dumaine Street Hex

Murder · ~75 min

Halloween week in the French Quarter. A conjure-shop owner toasts the Baron in front of twenty-two tourists and drops dead at his own altar. The whole street says the curse worked.