In article >, Tony Lew
> wrote:
> Dan Goodman > wrote in message
> >. ..
> > "pavane" > wrote in news:qmUwb.42808$M31.1056053
> > @twister.tampabay.rr.com:
> >
> > >
> > > "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)
Actually, I would suggest most of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories are
deeply involved with food.