Modern Collins (4) : Death warmed up

One of the joys of "modern" Collins Crime Club volumes was the sheer variety of story ideas and genres, in the case of Death warmed up by Marian Babson it is as much an examination of British corporate dinner food preparation than crime.

We follow the adventures of a small catering company which serves food to company board members after their meetings. The catering company gets mixed up in a mysterious death at one of their main clients and nefarious plots. 

At once cosy and somewhat old fashioned but the story is also cutting edge with - for the time - brand new technology (in this case a microwave oven) being used as a potential murder weapon. Great characters complete what is a superb story.