Death Of A Chef (Capucine Culinary Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
Flanked in protective custody by her two daughters, sharp-eyed recent university graduates, she embellished what she had already told Capucine with a wealth of detail, none of it useful. She and her husband had gone out to dinner at a workers’ café. That was where they always went. Of course, there were real restaurants in the village, but her husband refused to go where workers didn’t eat. Even though he was now “leader” of the company, he would not spend “one single sou” more than the foreman’s salary, which was all he would accept. That suited Madame Roque just fine. The description of their meal of steak frites and of the conversations with the friends they ran into was interminable. When they had come home, the lights wouldn’t go on, and so her husband had gone down to the basement to see what was the matter. She was terrified when he did not come up or answer her shouts. At this point the two daughters put their hands around her waist and hugged her. She then explained that she eventually found the courage to look for a flashlight in the kitchen drawers and creep down into the dark basement.
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