Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Murder to a Jazz Beat (1985)

Garrett Morris: Lafayette Duquesne

Quotes 

• 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.

• [first lines] 

  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.