Food in crime fiction.
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“I think, my dear, we won t talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.”
4.50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie
A writer may choose to serve up culinary detail within their novels for myriad reasons – world building, character development, the creation of a mood. Food is memorable, tangible, identifiable. It plants us directly in the action. For mystery novelists there is additional tantalising prospect. For within cocktails, cakes, omelettes, a jar of marmalade, a plate of mushrooms, lies a potential method for murder.