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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #9When kindly Lizzie Mast, a local Amish woman—and Hernia's worst cook—is found poisoned by a bad plate of crepes, bumbling local police chief, Melvin Stoltzfus, begs Magdalena Yoder, the irrepressible owner (and sleuth extraordinaire!) of the PennDutch Inn, to help him investigate.
With her bed and breakfast full of quirky guests, and her handsome new boyfriend to entertain, Magdalena isn't sure she has time for show more Stoltzfus's foolery. Cleverly (and frugally!) she puts her seven guests on A.L.P.O. (the Amish Lifestyle Plan Option), where guests pay an additional fee for the opportunity to cook for themselves, clean for themselves and do Magdalena's chores for her.
Still, solving the crime won't be a plate of flapjacks; Lizzie's husband blames the neighbor's 'Amish gone wild' sons; whose rumschpringa exploits are wreaking havoc but even more shocking, the trail of clues leads straight back to the PennDutch Inn...and Magdalena fears that this killer is cooking up something flat-out deadly!!!. show less
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Number 9 in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries. A local Amish woman has recently died and the chief of police asks for Magdalena's help. It appears that her death may have in fact been a murder. She learns about a threatening letter received by the woman after an early early morning visit from the postmistress. And she's off and investigating. One of the guests tells Magdalena about a dream she had where she dies in a cave. Another is a very tall woman who is out recruiting for a college basketball team. We also meet the widower of the deceased woman who has ptsd from Vietnam. Also a group of Amish youth who are going through Rumspringa, the Amish break for their teens. Through lots of dead ends and insults to the locals Magdalena finally show more finds the real culprit. show less
A mystery in Amish country. I thought this book was stupid. Dry wit and somewhat childish.
It's a silly book but I laughed so much I had to give it a 5. I read a couple more, but didn't laugh so much.
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Tamar Myers was born and raised in the Belgian Congo (now just the Congo). Her parents were missionaries. She was sixteen when her family settled in America. In college she began to submit novels for publication, but it took 23 years for her to get published. Persistence paid off, however, because Tamar is now the author of two ongoing mystery show more series. One is set in Pennsylvania and features Magdalena Yoder, an Amish-Mennonite sleuth who runs a bed and breakfast in the mythical town of Hernia. The other is set in the Carolinas and centers around the adventures of Abigail Timberlake, the proud owner of a Charlotte (and later Charleston) antique store, the Den of Antiquity. Tamar now calls Charlotte, NC home. She lives with her husband, plus a Basenji dog, a Bengal cat, and an orange tabby rescue cat. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Crepes of Wrath
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Magdalena Yoder; Thelma Hershberger; Elizabeth Mast; Hank Stutzman
- Important places
- Hernia, Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania, USA
- Dedication
- In loving memory of my mother, Helen Yoder 1908-2000
- First words
- I woke to find a woman's face pressed against the pane of my bedroom window.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was then that I _knew_ I had died and gone to Heaven.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
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