Synopsis When a guest at a faux-medieval pageant at an ancient English manor house is murdered, the "food-finder" (the person whose job it is to prepare historically authentic food for banquet quests) turns into a sleuth.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-05-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Note It seemed like a tasty proposition. When asked to give culinary advice for the Harlington Estate's medieval themed resort, the Gourmet Detective had hoped to rediscover such lost delights as eel pie, suckling pig, and enormous platters of pheasant, partridge, and teal in a fantasy environment of jousting, pied pipers, and wandering minstrels. But when a stuntman is poisoned by a mysterious and possibly hallucinatory ingredient and generations of family secrets begin to emerge, the Gourmet Detective discovers that he just might be next on the murderer's menu-unless he can find the real culprit. But in order to do so, he'll have to escape from both a labyrinth and a flooding dungeon, work undercover for Scotland Yard, and even fall prey to a mysterious heiress' charms...
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