Dan Goodman > wrote in message >. ..
> "pavane" > wrote in news:qmUwb.42808$M31.1056053
> @twister.tampabay.rr.com:
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> >
> > "a reader" > wrote in message
> >> (Kenneth Leja) wrote in message
> >> > It's fruitcake weather, it's fruitcake weather.
> >>
> >> John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
> >
> > Now that is one fantastic book!
>
> The mystery subgenre of culinary mysteries. The detective is usually a
> caterer, cook, or otherwise professionally concerned with cooking. There
> are recipes, either in the story itself or in an appendix.
>
> I'd think that a caterer whose clients or clients' guests kept dying would
> be out of business after a while. But maybe not.
Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks (has an appendix of recipes)