What makes Patricia Cornwall so special?!?! How come SHE gets all the limelight?!?!

[Rubyretro]

There is a murder/cooking book called 'The Debt to Pleasure' by John Lanchester which is a 'good read'.....I didn't think it was brilliant (it's too
obviously planned out -you can see all the seams.. so I couldn't escape into it without seeing the machinery).

Still, it did win the Whitbread and the Hawthornden (?) prizes..

If you want a serial killer's recipe book to read on the beach -this is a good one.

[protohistorian]

I think it is like a bad car crash, you want to look away but just can't.

[Roy Corduroy]

What was I thinkin? It's ONIONS Wambaugh


Emlyn Williams: Beyond the Beef

[Roy Corduroy]

Flambe' Wambaugh

Served with a cold Molsen by Olsen

[Graham]

Watson: "My dear Holmes, that appears to be a lemon-coloured flatfish you have there!"

Holmes: "A yellow manta ray, my dear Watson!"

Groan...

Graham

[Mike Covell]

Holme's book of Lemon Entree's

Detective Frost's tips on Icing/Frosting

Barlow and Watt in Watt's cooking

TJ Hooker's guide to Cookers

[Limehouse]

You could have a lot of fun imagining what sort of culinary literature could emerge from our favourite crime investigators. Here are a few for starters:

Morse's Big Book of Party Cake Recipes

Frost's 30 Quick Dinner for Busy Dectectives

[TheBigTruth]

Novels

I used to love the Scarpetta novels, especially the first few. Then Kay Scarpetta seemed to disappear up her own arse. Does this woman possess a sense of humour? My friends and family became used to hearing my screeches of anguish as I read yet another passage in which Kay makes fresh pasta or cooks some amazing stew from scratch. I thought she was supposed to be a busy woman! Now I find Cornwell's written a book called "Scarpetta's Winter Table", which appears to include a collection of recipes. Either Cornwell's got a better sense of humour than her protagonist, or she's totally gone insane. Anyway, as for Black Notice - I was relieved to find myself enjoying it, after the astonishingly anti-climatic ending of "Point of Origin", but once again, the ending left a lot to be desired. There's no interplay between heroine and villain like we used to get, just the obligatory break-in and the chase through the various rooms of the house. Ho-hum, seen it all before.

[Christine1932]

Yes, C S Lewis and Royals would make really something...

[Aristocles]

Holy necromancy! Quick, let me comment on a dead thread:

Certainly not for technical or cognitive skills. . . It's a non sequitor built upon a post hoc ergo propter hoc, continuously.

[Jeff Leahy]

PS AquA AnnA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDNBQSZ68U

[Jeff Leahy]

From hence forth thou shall be known as "Aqua"

Well I'm off..will catch you all next week..Ibiza becon's for the weekend.

It looks like we all have a wait a while anyway

And on my return there are more important things to discuss..

Like Kent, for One..

The wind is in me sails and me heart is in its Rollocks...

Bye ee

[anna]

Hiya, Pirate Jack!

Great Idea!

"Marina......Aqua Marina",

Ah,Yes....I remember it well.

ANNA.

[Jeff Leahy]

Hay Anna why don't you become a Mermaid?

There's Marreana from Sting Ray?

Perhaps me and Kipper could become Troy and Phones?

Pirate

[anna]

Greetings!


........Relax Fella's!!

I was only joking!!!


With user names like yours...I just couldn't resist it.


ANNA.xxxx