Monday, April 01, 2019

Poison à la Carte


Poison à la Carte is the first novella in the 1960 collection Three at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout. This story was adapted for the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery. In this one Wolfe makes one of his rare appearances at a social gathering, supporting his private chef Fritz' cooking for the annual dinner meeting of an Aristology club. When a death is attributed to the food, Wolfe proves Fritz' cooking was in no way responsible. The dinner is held on April 1.

Here's the TV adaptation:

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  1. Anonymous11:17 AM

    I LOVE these!
    --A Pal

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    1. They do fun things with the titles on these.

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  3. not familiar with this one-I don't watch allot of mysterious-but I am beginning too-so far the Hallmark mysterious

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    1. We like the mysteries generally, but this Mauray Chaykin/Timothy Hutton adaptation is a treasure. Even better than the books, which is rare.

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  4. I've bookmarked this and will watch it later, hopefully tonight. I'm sure I've seen it before because I saw all of them when they first came out. Too bad A&E isn't really about A&E anymore!

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    1. TV channels ain't what they used to be *cough*HGTV*cough* We bought this series on DVD as we came across it and have re-watched them several times.

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    2. I agree with you about HGTV as well as A&E. I'm seeing an influx of true crime mysteries on different channels, though.

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    3. I finally watched it and was so surprised at how young both Hutton and Lindy Booth looked.

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    4. Hutton looks so _young_ in these now that I'm used to seeing him in his later work. So _skinny_! lol

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  5. That's a good choice for April's fool day. Hope you weren't buying into anyone's jokes today.

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    1. I stay offline and off FB in particular on the day. I'm not a fan. It gets ugly. And besides the news is hard enough to tell from the satire without folks trying to "fool" people lol

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  6. I remember seeing this on TV here, but it was years ago. They showed a whole series. Valerie

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    1. It's such a good series, just not enough seasons. I wish it had lasted longer.

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  7. That youtube website has the entire A&E series plus the pilot episode!! I have bookmarked it--thanks! :)

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    1. I hope you like them as much as we have :) We have them on DVD and re-watch them every once in a while.

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