Murder on the menu

Sit down to a fabulous feast of deliciously wicked tales sure to please the palate of everyone with a taste for mystery, menace, and murder.

Here the great Nero Wolfe sets the table with his own special brand of deduction when he finds out why the price of a dish of caviar is death. Ed Hoch’s suave shamus Nick Velvet thinks filching a used teabag for $25,000 is a steal—until he discovers it’s filled with deadly consequences. And a dinner date with Isaac Asimov’s Black Widowers leads to a spicy story of premeditated murder.

From Dutch chocolate in Amsterdam that mixes the sweet and the sinister, to a fine wine in Curacao that leaves behind a lethal legacy, this superb selection of whodunits, shockers, and suspense serves up a memorable dish of delectable detection.