Murder in the Smokehouse [Hardcover]

Amy Myers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997

While visiting the Tabor family for a gala ball in 1901, the venerable Edwardian sleuthing duo of Auguste and Tatiana stumbles upon a corpse in Lady Pricilla Tabor's secluded smoking house and must find out who the victim is as well as the killer."

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It's 1901, and master chef/sometime sleuth Auguste Didier is honeymooning in England with his Romanov princess bride Tatiana (Murder Makes an Entree, 1996, etc.). The two have been invited to Yorkshire for a weekend at Tabor Hall, home of the high-society Tabor family, with King Edward in attendance, to celebrate the engagement of Victoria Tabor to Tatiana's cousin Alexander Tully- Rich. Lady Priscilla Tabor, an ahead-of-her-time antismoking fanatic, banishes cigar fanciers to an outbuilding called the Smokehouse. It's there, late on Saturday night, that a man's body is found, shot to death--his identity a mystery. After the King quietly exits the scene, Didier, between forays to the kitchen, where the family cook presides over typical Yorkshire fare, gives what help he can to old friend Chief Inspector Rose of Scotland Yard. False trails abound as Lady Priscilla, her husband Baron George, his mother the Dowager Lady Miriam, his sister Laura, and her would-be suitor Oliver Carstairs, among others, are questioned at tiresome length, even as other avenues are being explored. The answers, when they finally arrive, have roots in a long-hidden past. Didier, whose patrician wife has decided to become an auto mechanic, must also confront a personal threat from Pyotr Gregorin, a relative of Tatiana's, enraged by her marriage to a commoner. Good-natured nonsense heavily embroidered with fancy prose, cooking lore, Yorkshire eccentrics, local accents, and crazed aristocrats. Patient readers with a fondness for the period may enjoy. For others, a tangled web laced with tedium. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312155980
• ISBN-13: 978-0312155988
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,560,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Detection Is Similar To Cooking, July 27, 2002

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Peter Kenney (Birmingham, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder in the Smokehouse (Hardcover)

One of the pleasures of reading this book is watching the protagonist work as a detective. He sees detection as being very similar to cooking. The ingredients come from several different quarters but in the end they usually fit together.