Search Results: Cooking from Murder By The Book

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2005. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Bickering ex-lovers and a disappearing corpse highlight this 1952 comedy by the queens of screwball. There was no question that Agatha Bunson hated her cook. Em could cook. Just about everyone agreed on that point. Agatha, however, despised Em's slovenly ways and was forever cleaning up after her. If she could, she would have fired Em ages ago. But an odd clause in her father's will prevented her from doing that. Now Em was dead and Agatha assumed she must have done it, although she had no recollection of killing her. But lately, Agatha had been prone to walking in her sleep and she figured it was during one of these nocturnal rambles that she did in the disgusting old creature. What's done is done, Agatha thought, and so she propped Em up in a rocking chair and squirreled her away in a sealed closet. There'd be time enough later to figure out what to do with the body. Of course Em… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Faith Fairchild, former New York City caterer, investigates a suspect retirement home in the small New England town where she now lives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1992. 1st prtg. Light wear at edges else a near fine copy in wraps. The 3rd Faith Fairchild title; small town Massachusetts locale. SIGNED COPY.. Signed by Author. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine.

N.Y.: Bantam, 2002. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fore edge lightly spotted else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, business isn’t just booming--it’s skyrocketing. But as her friend Marla is constantly warning her, "Success can kill you." Goldy knows she needs to slow down before she breaks down, and she vows she’ll do it--right after her next booking: a cocktail party for the Westside Mall’s Elite Shoppers Club. It’s the event of the shopping season: the Princess Without a Pricetag party for the wealthy shopaholics who drop at least a thousand dollars a week at the mall. Goldy has been hired by charming mall manager Barry Dean to cater the jewel-encrusted affair. But she has hardly begun setting up when she finds herself in the path of a truck that has no intention of stopping until both she and Barry are crushed beneath it. Muddied, bruised, embarrassed, but determined to do her job, Goldy… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press / Minotaur Books, 2002. 1st. Edition, September 2002 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Heaven Lee has lived in Kansas City a long time, and she thought she knew as much as there was to know about her hometown. But when her longtime friend Stephanie Simpson starts a new business as a chocolatier after divorce, Heaven is surprised and delighted to find out that Stephanie is getting back to her family roots with her new enterprise. As it turns out, her mother was heir to the famous Foster's Chocolates fortune, a chocolate company that is a Kansas City institution. That is, until her brothers, Stephanie's uncles, swindled her out of her share lo these many years ago. Still, Stephanie is excited to be back in the family business, albeit in a small way with her own downtown chocolate shop, and Heaven can't wait to learn all about chocolate. She's got a… Read More

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Tori Miracle Culinary Mystery. "Struggling but spunky New York author Tori Miracle returns to Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania (see Death Pays the Rose Rent, LJ 7/94), to visit her long-distance boyfriend, hunky local police chief Garnet. Their plans to vacation together are interrupted when someone kills a man who promised to sell acreage to a controversial proposed nuclear waste facility. Tori investigates but only after agreeing to speak to the literary society, act as "celebrity" judge for recipe entries in the local apple festival, and consider becoming temporary editor of the newspaper. Likable, eccentric characters, frothy hullabaloo, and humorous situations." -- Library Journal. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon, 2001. 1st ed. Reading crease, slight spine slant else a very good+ copy of this Paperback Original and LEFTY AWARD WINNER and ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Diamond Books, 1993. 1st edition, July 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback Original. When one of her fellow cooking class students is murdered, Kate is determined to catch the killer, especially when she learns that her friend Barbara is accused of the crime. . 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1995. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. " For Colorado's Goldy B. Schulz, the catering proves far less rewarding than the sleuthing when she's called on to prepare a banquet for the Mignon cosmetics company. Forced to forsake mayonnaise and butter in this low-fat luncheon, Goldy is in "caterers' hell." But that's a better place than where Mignon super-saleswoman Claire Satterfield ends up?which is dead. According to Julian Teller, Goldy's catering assistant, Claire had recently suspected she was being followed. Adding to the mystery is a local reporter who has taken to using Mignon's ultra-expensive potions while trying, none too subtly, to extract information Goldy might have gathered from her husband, homicide detective Tom Schulz. When Goldy's initial inquiries earn her an anonymous warning to clear off, she becomes more determined. As always, Davidson includes recipes as she… Read More

N.Y.: Bantam, 1998. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. An unscrupulous new rival has pushed Goldy's beloved catering business to the brink of collapse. An even more unscrupulous local contractor has left her precious kitchen in a shambles. Yet Goldy has joined forces with her old mentor, French chef Andre Hibbard, to cater a fashion photo shoot at a turn-of-the-century mountain cabin. There, in a hopelessly outdated kitchen, Goldy and the temperamental but kindhearted Andre struggle to create warming Models' Mushroom Soup, Savory Florentine Cheesecakes, and a luscious spread for a vain and vacuous crowd of beautiful people whose personal dramas climax when a camera is pitched through a plateglass window...into the buffet. Things go swiftly from bad to worse when the infamous building contractor, Gerald Eliot, is found strung up in the house of one of Goldy's best friends, the president of the local historical society.… Read More

N.Y.: Little, Brown, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Macmillan, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Eighty recepies.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Bantam, 2001. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. "Culinary sleuth Goldy Schulz finesses another catering job by the skin of her teeth in her 11th warm and fuzzy adventure from bestseller Davidson (Prime Cut, etc.). Goldy is preparing to cater two events at the baronial estate-cum-conference center outside Denver where she and her family are staying. While waiting for a delivery, she discovers the body of one of a gang of philatelic thieves and sees her husband, Tom, wounded by a sniper. A rich feast of false clues and red herrings follows. While Tom recuperates, Goldy is free to investigate the shooter. Embarking on a series of unpleasant and improbable personal encounters, as well as demanding meal preparations, she uncovers a string of clues that not only implicate her hosts, her son's coach and her ex (now out on parole), but raise questions about her marriage to Tom. Fortunately, the author grants Goldy a few brief… Read More

N.Y.: Bantam, 2000. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. "Chef/amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz returns for a ninth outing in Davidson's popular culinary mystery series. Goldy's home-based catering business in the Colorado high country is temporarily suspended by drain problems, so she accepts a stint on a PBS cooking show before the Christmas holidays. After a meeting with Goldy, Doug Portman, her wealthy ex-boyfriend, is found dead on a back country ski run, with thousands of dollars flying from his pockets. Goldy discovers that an old acquaintance, Nate Bullock, had also been discovered there after an avalanche in almost the same spot three years earlier, and she herself is a victim of misadventure when her van is nudged over a cliff. Determined to find the killer lurking on the ski slopes, Goldy unearths motives aplenty, possibly among her culinary friends in a mountain restaurant. Davidson's creative recipes, scattered… Read More