- Lafayette Duquesne: Where to first?
- Jessica Fletcher: Oh, the St. Charles Cemetery, please.
- Lafayette Duquesne: Ma'am, with all of the beautiful places in New Orleans? Ma'am, that place is dead.
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- Lafayette Duquesne: Yeah, you see, the secret is in using stale beer to make the fish stock.
- Jessica Fletcher: Stale beer?
- Lafayette Duquesne: Yeah. It makes a roux for the finest gumbo you ever set a lip to.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, that is a marvelously interesting recipe.
- Lafayette Duquesne: Yeah. You know, I always say that whatever time a man's got, spendin' it with good food, good friends, good music and good conversation, why, a man can't die no ways but happy.