The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery (Eugenia Potter Mysteries)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005NKGF0Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Potter's famous twenty-seven-ingredient chili, the flabbergasted hostess knows she must act quickly before someone else is murdered.From the Paperback edition.. When a dinner guest of Eugenia Potter is found poisoned, supposedly from Mrs
As neighboring ranchers and friends conduct a search, Mrs. Aiding the forthright sleuth in her ultimately successful pursuit of the killer and the missing girl is a rediscovered former lover. Potter receives a call from Ricardo Ortega, manager of her Arizona ranch, who hints at trouble. Potter tries to determine the cause of Ricardo's unease. From Publishers Weekly Using notes and recipes of the late Virginia Rich ( The Cooking School Murders), Pickard, author of the Jenny Caine mysteries, serves up a fourth satisfying, chatty tale about master cook and
"Beyond The Grave; Gaining On The Murder Monster" according to Linda G. Shelnutt. Preferring the clarity of focus of a solitary mind, I normally detour around dual authorship fiction. But, in the case of Nancy Pickard's continuing the late Virginia Rich's Eugenia Potter series, I was intrigued by the potence of a fictional character surviving the grave of her creator.I chose "The 27 Ingredient CHILI CON CARNE MURDERS" as my introduction to this Genia character, because it contained contributions from both authors, with Nancy working from plot notes Virginia left behind. That Chile offering bridged Rich's original three Potter novels, to Pickard's two continuations (two published, as far as I know).Readin. Welcome Addition to the Eugenia Potter Series Following the death of Virginia Rich, many Eugenia Potter fans thought the series was also laid to rest. Fortunately for her fans, the family of Virginia Rich asked Nancy Pickard, a respected author in her own right, to continue the series using Rich's plot notes.The 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders is the first of three written by Pickard. It is difficult for any author to pick up where another left off, but Pickard has risen to the occasion with a fine story.Preparing for a dinner party the next evening, Eugenia Potter decided to make a Mexican chili recipe typically found in the Southwest rather than at her current . "A Richly Rewarding Experience" according to A Customer. Reading Virginia Rich's mysteries always left me hungry, not simply for the food described within the pages, but for another adventure with Eugenia Andrews Potter, the main character of her novels. In quick succession, I read The Cooking School Murders, The Baked Bean Supper Murders, and The Nantucket Diet Murders. With Genia, I went to her childhood home in Iowa, to her cottage in Maine, and to Nantucket for a reunion with old friends.I wondered where we'd go next and what wrongdoings she would uncover. For years, I anxiously checked the R's in the mystery section of each bookstore I entered, looking for a new release by R