Gary Dexter

Surprising literary ventures | 7 October 2009

‘Recipe for a chic murder,’ runs the blurb on the back of Death Likes it Hot.

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‘Recipe for a chic murder,’ runs the blurb on the back of Death Likes it Hot.

‘Recipe for a chic murder,’ runs the blurb on the back of Death Likes it Hot. ‘Take a social-climbing dowager; a house-party full of bright, brittle, amoral idlers; let simmer for a long hot summer weekend, and you get the fanciest killing of the season.’

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