"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Occasional recipes, rich in butter and sugar, don't make up for the story's sour tone.Ĭopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Another guest bites the dust as this carping narrator fails to display the high IQ she brags of: matters become clear to her only when the villain is overcome by a desire to confess.
It’s a way of telling someone that they are employing too many resources. The more people involved in a process, the worse the result. Police chief Jeff Myers initiates an investigation of the suspicious death, but leaves soon for a vacation with his wife Tammy, who is, Magdalena's observes, "dingier than a mailbox on a gravel road." With the case in the hands of a dim deputy, Magdalena undertakes some sleuthing and learns that her patrons are secretly linked in their pasts. The proverbial expression too many cooks spoil the broth means that having too much input from too many people derails progress to achieving your goal. When not badmouthing her sinful, slothful, divorced sister and her "bizarre excuse for a dog," Magdalena attends to an unfortunate combination of guests: a congressman, his wife and aide, who are in the area for the first weekend of deer-hunting season a quartet of anti-hunting activists and Heather Brown, who calls herself a "photo-hunter." Ironically, one of the hunting foes bags the first big game when, in the middle of the night, he finds Heather sprawled dead on the inn stairs. This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, a mean-spirited Mennonite innkeeper who offers service with a sneer to the "well-heeled, highfalutin customers" patronizing her PennDutch Inn in southern Pennsylvania. Title: Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth : A Pennsylvania-Dutch Mystery With Recipes Author Name: Myers, Tamar ISBN Number: 0451182960 ISBN-13: 9780451182968.
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