It is Karnawał season in the snow-cloaked Kingdom of Lechija, and from now until midnight when the church bells ring an end to Devil's Tuesday time will be marked with wintry balls and cavalcades of nightly torch-lit "kuligi" sleigh-parties. Two monsters join the fun, descending upon the royal city of Warszów in the guise of two innocent girls. Zosia and Marynka seem destined to have a friendship that's stronger even than magic-- but both have their...

Steve the gorilla, who lives at the city zoo in Rio de Janeiro, escapes one night to look for his friend Antonio the zookeeper, and gets caught up in the merriment of Carnival.

Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests--including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand--never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote. Buried up to her neck in strange clues,...