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Cargando... Spiced to Death (1997)por Peter King
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Good book for my summer "porch read". I especially enjoyed the descriptions of international cuisine, ( ) The London-based “Gourmet Detective” has been called upon by an old acquaintance to authenticate a rare spice that was thought to have been extinct for 500 years. The “Gourmet Detective” (I'll call him G.D. since he's never named) expects to stay in New York no longer than two or three days. However, his stay is unexpectedly extended when, first of all, the newly-authenticated spice disappears, and then his colleague is murdered. Since he is one of the few people who know what the spice looks like, G.D. agrees to help the police find the missing spice and the killer. This is a typically formulaic cozy with perhaps a few too many suspects. However, the setting, the food history, and the descriptions of international cuisine nudge it above average. It has the feel of an episode of Murder, She Wrote, so it's not surprising that this series has been adapted for television movies on the Hallmark Movies and Mystery Channel. The Gourmet Detective (who is not a detective in the usual sense of the word) has been called by his friend Don Renshaw to help authenticate a shipment of a spice (Ko-Feng) that has been newly rediscovered, having been lost for 500 years. Of course, since no one living really knows much about it, they have to draw on their vast experiences with other spices and chemical reactions to do so. The shipment disappears as soon as it has been authenticaated. Restauranteurs as well as those into medical and other scientific research all want to get their hands on it. Soon there are deaths connected to the spice. The Gourmet Detective works with the New York Police Department to help solve the crime. This installment was very slow-paced. The narrative bogged down in what should have been my favorite part of it -- descriptions of food. Its solution was somewhat similar to a locked room puzzle in some sense, although there is an additional dimension since the murders took place outside of the locked room. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"This appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor" (People). In the days of Marco Polo, men risked their lives for spices. And in an age when black pepper was so valuable that it was sold one peppercorn at a time, there was no spice more valuable than the legendary Ko Feng. Known as the Celestial Spice, it supposedly vanished five centuries ago, and its name lives on only as culinary myth. But now a sack of it has turned up in New York City, and the leading experts of world cuisine will kill for a taste. When London's finest gourmet detective proclaims the mysterious spice authentic, this sack of weeds becomes the most valuable substance on earth, worth thousands of dollars per gram. But soon the spice vanishes, one of his colleagues is murdered, and the detective is forced to dive into New York's culinary underworld. His palate may be refined, but this gourmet knows how to fight dirty. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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