The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery (The Eugenia Potter Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0440216419 / Publisher: Dell, January 1994
When one of her guests dies after eating her twenty-seven-ingredient chili con carne, Eugenia Potter makes it her quest to find the person or persons who added a twenty-eighth--and fatal--ingredient to the recipe
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Some like it hot“Delightful . . . Ms. Pickard has given the protagonist a new least on life!”—The New York TimesWhen Eugenia Potter receives an urgent phone call from the manager of her ranch near Tucson, she's only too happy to drop everything and fly home. Something inside of her is calling her back to the desert. Why else would be preparing spicy Mexican meatball soup at her cottage in Maine when the menu clearly calls for clam chowder?But once she arrives home, Mrs. Potter discovers that her ranch manager and his granddaughter are missing from her ranch, Las Palomas, and feared dead. When a guest at a dinner gathering thrown by Mrs. Potter is food poisoned—apparently from eating her famous 27-ingredient chili—she knows she must act quickly before the murderer strikes again. And it doesn't hurt to have the help of a long-lost beau to spice up the danger with romance . . .
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