by Mel Harper, Graham Harper, Mo Holkar

Take your plates for the grand opening of Le Furet Frit Bassethwaite's newest (in fact, only) five-star restaurant. Renowned chef Marco-Raymond Ramsey and his team of highly-trained cooking and waiting staff stand ready to welcome the great and the good of the town -- but the fly in the soup is that rnrestaurant critic Easgon Rooney has been found dead in the opulent ladies' bathroom. Whose razor-sharp knives may have polished off Rooney? What's really in the ragoût de viande chevaline? And just what is going on in the walk-in pantry...