Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'culinary'
Mutual admiration
“Librarians are my favorite people and libraries, my favorite places to be.” Kind words from one of the finest traditional mystery writers around. The Author's Note from Katherine Hall Page’s latest (and 18th) Faith Fairchild title, The Body in the Sleigh, is her thank-you letter to librarians everywhere. It is so nice to be appreciated. If you would like to meet Katherine Hall Page, stop by the McManus Room Monday night, November 2nd, at 7:30 when she will speak about the new book. Copies will be available for purchase and signing after the talk. It has a holiday theme, so this may be the perfect gift for some of the mystery readers on your list.Have Faith
Katherine Hall Page is the author of seventeen Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery. The fifteenth book, The Body in the Snowdrift (2005), won the Agatha for best novel. Page also won an Agatha for her short story The Would-Be Widower. She is the first person in the history of Malice Domestic to win all three of these awards and was the Guest of Honor at Malice in 2006. Good news for Page’s fans. The Body in the Sleigh – book number eighteen – is promised for October, 2009. Katherine Hall Page will also be joining the group of authors assembled for the Murder 203 mystery festival to be held on April 18th-19th.Life on West 35th Street
The very first Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, was published in 1934, and the upcoming Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana (October 15-18) will celebrate this auspicious seventy-fifth anniversary and will feature a Friday evening Wolfean-themed banquet. Long before cozy culinary mysteries were in vogue, Rex Stout’s readers were treated to cooking tips, food lore and gastronomical miscellanea. Besides orchids, the mainstay of his detective Nero Wolfe's leisurely existence was the enjoyment of good food. Wolfe (frequently described as weighing "a seventh of a ton") dined on three generous meals a day. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the detective’s cases in 33 novels and 39 short stories over a forty year period from the 1930s to the 1970s, and most of them are set in New York City where the detective resides in a brownstone on West 35th Street.A bottle of red, a bottle of white
There is a new true crime paperback series from the folks who bring us 48 Hours, the CBS prime-time news series.
The first title in the series, Nightmare in Napa, relates the chilling story of the murders of two women on Halloween night, 2004.
There is a good selection of cozy mysteries set in Napa California wine country if the real thing is too scary for you.
Think Key West …
If the Kafka’s Soup wasn’t enough to warm you up, why not try a taste of Key Lime Pie … Murder?
Let Joanne Fluke’s latest mouthwatering Hannah Swensen mystery take you away! Actually, it is set in Minnesota, but it is summer there and the mosquitoes are buzzing, so you are still ahead of the game.
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