Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
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A Second Helping of Murder : More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Jo Grossman
, Robert Weibezahl
Class/Genre: Cook Book Mystery Non-Fiction
Poisoned Pen, 1999, $19.95
A second helping of easy to follow clues (recipes) is provided to those armchair sleuths who appreciated A Taste of Murder. A new bunch of suspects provide either their favorite recipe or that of their hero so that the readers obtain well over a hundred helpings from a wide gamut of writers including Poe. As this reviewer did with the first book “The Set Up” was simple, and I used my personal Watson as a food taster so he would have “No Bone to Pick” (for now) about time on book reviews vs. cooking. However, even providing him with “Tough Cookies” and his “Just Desserts”, Watson found the clues that led to trying the entrees from sections such as “Murder Most Fowl” and :Mealing Out Justice”.
Watson enjoyed the meals and desserts while this reviewer appreciated the tidbits about some of the genre’s favorite writers and their character. The tome is fun as it deftly combines genre information within a diabolically delicious cookbook (the meals not the book). Only one “Red Herring” surfaced, Watson expects more cooked meals leaving moi “In the Soup” over the “Crumby Situations”.
Harriet Klausner
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