To spite her face

Hildegarde Dolson

When the wife of "the nicest guy in town" is poisoned at a party and a blackmailer is strangled and thrust into a drawer of the Thrift Shop, the village of Wingate, Connecticut, buzzes over a jampot of scandal. Lively widow Lucy, mistress of fine cuisine, is the sleuthing civilian counterpart of divorced Inspector McDougal, who likes to eat well.