Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe

After arriving in London to create a special dessert for the queen, New York's leading food expert is suspected by Scotland Yard of killing off Europe's master chefs

Literature & Fiction

Lyons, Nan

Lyons, Ivan

Humor & Satire

Harcourt

Just after Switzerland's Enstein Clinic releases formerly obese murderer Achille van Golk, culinary sleuths Natasha O'Brien and Millie Ogden once again set out on the trail of a serial chef killer--this time stalking American cooking experts. 35,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of America

Little,Brown & Co

Ballantine Books

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Country auctioneer Duffy Patterson competes with Charles Wyndham, owner of a New York auction house, for long lost Faberge jewelry that has mysteriously reappeared in northern New York

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

Champagne Blues

"Claude, the most formidable concierge in all Paris..."

Romance

Fawcett

Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe

Someone is killing the great chefs of Europe (A Pyramid book)

Pyramid Publications

Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of America

Random House Value Publishing

Country auctioneer Duffy Patterson competes with Charles Wyndham, owner of a New York auction house, for long lost Faberge jewelry that has mysteriously reappeared in northern New York

United States

In a novel of wit and haute cuisine, great chefs collectively bully greengrocers for the best produce and would rather starve than eat each other's cooking. Nan Lyons has been a food and travel writer for over twenty years, contributing to Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, More, Hamptons, L'official New York Newsday, as well as creating the Fielding's Agenda series and the Access Walking guides. In collaboration with her husband Ivan, she wrote the first novel with a food background, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe which was then made into a major motion picture. They went on to write four other novels as well as scores of articles on food and travel. Her newest book, Around the World in 80 Meals (Red Rock Press) was published in late 2010. Nan has most recently been made Associate Editor for "Let's Travel" a new website which features interviews as well as podcasts and articles on every aspect of travel. Her particular expertise is focused on restaurants, shopping and luxury hotels.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Argo-Navis

A treasure of 96 eggs” is found by small town auctioneer Duffy Patterson at a local spinster’s farm in upstate New York. The discovery takes Duffy into the high flying and highly entertaining world of multi-million dollar auctions to place the mysterious find of the Fabergé masterpieces. Fans of Nan and Ivan Lyons’ Someone is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe will enjoy this fast-paced country/city romp.Nan Lyons has been a food and travel writer for over twenty years, contributing to Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, More, Hamptons, L'official New York Newsday, as well as creating the Fielding's Agenda series and the Access Walking guides. In collaboration with her husband Ivan, she wrote the first novel with a food background, "Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe" which was then made into a major motion picture. They went on to write four other novels as well as scores of articles on food and travel.The Lyonses top their earlier novels with this, their third, and incredible but highly entertaining tale. The volatile plot is based on a treasure found by Dorothy (Duffy) Patterson, an auctioneer working out of the family barn in Perry Falls, a small New York Town. In the pitifully sparse possessions of an elderly spinster, Natalie Corbett, Duffy discovers 96 eggs” created by Fabergé for the tragic Russian Czarina Alexandra. The collection embroils Duffy and her lover, Ben Perry, with numerous fanatics desperate to acquire the jewels. Duffy’s biggest problem is the wooing of sexy Charles Wyndham, owner of a prestigious Manhattan gallery, a man avid for the honor of auctioning off the treasure. Running concurrently with the main story is the sad account of how Alexandra’s gems came into the possession of poor, lonely Natalieby an ironic trick of fate."- Publishers Weekly © PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Fast, inventive, saucily detailed fun: a Country Mouse/City Mouse frolic with tender moments..and heaps of cinematic potential”- Kirkus ReviewsYou’ll be entranced by the glamorous, treacherous world of multimillion-dollar auctions, where heartsand other treasures beyond priceare goinggoinggone!”- COSMOPOLITAN

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