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S'MORE MURDERS: Five-Ingredient Mystery #5


Val tries to keep her head above water when her Titanic-themed dinner on a yacht becomes a prelude to murder.
The victim and suspects in S'more Murders include collectors, dealers, and thieves of Titanic memorabilia, as well as a descendant of a Titanic survivor. ​They all attend a dinner party on a yacht, commemorating the last meal served to the first-class passengers on that doomed ship. The menu here is what the passengers ate in 1912.
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The first-class dinner menu, Titanic, April 14, 1912
We have no way of knowing how much of this heavy feast the passengers consumed. No recipes survive from the Titanic's kitchen, but recipes from that era tend to use butter and cream liberally. 

The dinner Val serves on the yacht in S'more Murders is a slimmed-down version of the original with fewer choices. She also modifies several dishes so vegetarians don't go hungry. She serves stuffed squash (vegetable marrow farci) for course three and a mushroom paté  rather than goose liver paté, for course nine. But, at the request of the hostess, she adds s'mores, a treat that wasn't invented until years after the Titanic set sail. 
No one gets to finish Val's Titanic-inspired dinner, and it's the final meal for one person on the yacht. Val must cook up a scheme to catch the killer before s'more murders go down.
  • View images of the menus from the Titanic and see what passengers in second and third class ate. 
  • Learn about the history of s'mores. 
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Cover of S'more Murders: a marshmallow roasting, chocolate squares, and graham crackers in front of a porthole
ISBN: 978-1-4967-0919-6
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Large Print Hardback ISBN-10: 1432854526

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