Watch Party featuring Angela Lansbury
Sunday 27th July, 7pm BST
It’s publication day for Cooking The Detectives today! Whoop, whoop!
Recipes from all of the actors and actresses you see on the cover and many more who played TV sleuths are within. Including, of course, our very own beloved Angela Lansbury.
Signed copies with bookmarks are available via my Etsy shop
via Amazon or to order via your local bookshop.
To celebrate, I’m doing a couple of pub day pop-ins at the London Writers Salon Writers Hours and in the evening I will toast the book with a Creole Scream Cocktail, as featured in the “taster episode” of The Persuaders I have writen about.
For all those who voted in the poll to help me decide what to cook today, all will be revealed in the next missive…
I’m having two in-person book launches, one was this weekend in Hastings and the other is next Saturday in London. Each will feature a Kojak Lollipop Lickathon - with prizes!
But there’s also a chance to win some goodies at an online party that everyone is welcome to join (timezones permitting).
Pop the date in your diaries my lovelies! We’ll be licking along to a movie that has strong links to my new book -The Mirror Crack’d (1980) featuring our beloved Dame Angela as Miss Marple.
It’s one of those movies that has a HEAP of superstars in it and three of those have recipes in my new book.
Angela Lansbury - Walnut Date Bread
Tony Curtis - Hungarian Goulash
Rock Hudson - Chicken Casserole Dinner
These are the suggested recipes in chapters on Murder, She Wrote, The Persuaders and McMillan and Wife in Cooking The Detectives. So if you buy the book you can rustle up one of those to scoff before, during or after The Mirror Crack’d. Or you could treat yourself to another of Angela’s recipes from Murder, She Cooked if you have it of course.
I highly suggest listening to the TV detective themed playlist Mr Rathbone has put together to groove along to as you cook.
If you can’t make the watch party, do try and find time to treat yourself to this movie - alone or with chums. It’s mad!
The watch party will be run in conjunction with my other newsletter Dinner and a Movie. You’ll need to be signed up there so that you can access the chat room if you want to join all the fun.
How to join the watch party
More details about how to join the watch party will follow but basically you’ll need to source the film on DVD or via a streaming service (it’s on lots here in the UK so hopefully it’s the same if you are elsewhere). To join in with the fun you’ll need to have access to my Dinner and a Movie private chat room, which you can activate in advance so you are ready to go.
If you want to join in with the lickathon, make sure you have a lollipop about your person!
Star-spangled recipe books!
My books are available worldwide via Amazon (switch to your own country for the correct pricing)
or via my Etsy shop (these will come directly from me and can be signed if you wish) - my 1933 cocktail book facsimile is only available from here.
