Main Corpse [Audio Cassette]

Diane Mott Davidson (Author), Mary Gross (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1996

Unrelenting rain has dampened the business for Goldy B. Schultz's Goldilock's Catering. Just as Goldy's bank account is about to dry up, her friend Marla saves the day by offering Goldy a job catering a gala for financial investors at a long-closed local mine. But when the rain, a clever embezzlement scheme, and a missing boyfriend combine to make Marla's party a soggy disaster, Goldy learns that a brilliant con artist has cooked up his own poisonous recipe for homicide. 2 cassettes.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Goldy Korman, owner of Goldilocks Catering, prepares a beer and hors d'oeuvres celebration for a group of wealthy investors at the entrance to a gold mine. Fradulent assays, a missing company executive, mudslides, murder?and fabulous recipes?add up to delightful reading.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

An exceedingly wet spring in Aspen, Colorado, seems to have dampened the need for a caterer, so Davidson's caterer-sleuth Goldy Schulz is not in a position to refuse her friend Maria's urging to cater a reception for Prospect Financial Partners' wealthy investors at the Eurydice Gold Mine. Despite risks of rock and mud slides from the saturated ground, Goldy grimly hauls her equipment up into the mountains^--only to witness Maria openly engaged in verbal warfare with one of the company's partners over the validity of an assay report on the mine's prospects. When that partner disappears the next day with more than $3 million in investor funds and the other partner^-Maria's current boyfriend--also goes missing, Maria is arrested on suspicion of murder. Goldy, of course, is determined to help despite the active discouragement of her policeman-husband. Davidson serves up yet another spirited romp in the Colorado Rockies, with Goldy's excellent recipes again interspersed amid the sleuthing. Stuart Miller --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Bantam Books (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575110199
• ISBN-13: 978-1575110196
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,665,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Mott Davidson is the author of more than ten bestselling mysteries. She lives with her family in Colorado.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A dark entry in the Goldy series, January 25, 1999

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Nancy A. Fox (West Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Main Corpse (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)

A dreary and somewhat depressing book, without the fun sparkle of other books in the series. Even "The Last Suppers", where Goldy's groom is abducted minutes before their wedding is more cheery than this book.

Perhaps the constant rain and gloom depicted in the story just pervaded the feel of this book. Goldy's best friend, Marla, is accused of murdering her boyfriend and his business partner, because she'd lost so much money in their financial investments. It's up to Goldy, The General, Arch and his new dog Jake the Bloodhound to prove the charge wrong.

Not a bad book, but not quite up to the fun of the other Goldy mysteries. The recipes are wonderful as always, and I can't wait until strawberry season so that I can try the Sugar-snap pea and Strawberry salad.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is torture!!, July 21, 2002

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Momof3 "reader" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Main Corpse (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have really enjoyed reading Diane Mott Davidson, but this book was so frustrating to read! Reading throug 10 pages of soup taste testing almost sent me over the edge. This was the most boring book I have read in a long time. Reading the reviews, I was sure I had read a different book than those giving the book a 5 star rating. Wow!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Delectable but a little off the mark, August 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Main Corpse (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have truly loved reading the Goldy Schulz murder series, however, this one wasn't one of Diane Mott Davidson's best. The conclusion was a little unbelieverable and it seemed clumsily done. It just didn't seem real that everything fell in too place as Goldy comes up with a dangerous and outrageous way to catch the villain of the story. Ms. Davidson's ending seemed more like the ones you see on a TV mystery like Murder, She Wrote.

Even though this one was a little off the mark, it will not stop me from continuing to read more Goldy mysteries. I want to continue to follow her ever-imaginative detective strategies, see if Julian comes back, and as always, obtain additional scrumptious recipes.