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This is the fifth adventure for Margot O'Banion, film editor for Max Skull, the movie director, and also his lover. Max's consultant for his latest movie is Robert Madrid who is a celebrity chef from a famous family of chefs and has a very successful TV cookery programme. The movie intends to lay bare the cut-throat business of running trendy restaurants in Hollywood but, during production, there is a real life murder -- Margot and a friend find the body in the kitchen of the studio commissary. There are a number of larger then life egos to be viewed here; some characters are in the movie business but many are in the food business and the mixing of these together makes a lethal recipe. As the events develop Margot is concerned that the movie should achieve successful production and is protective of her beautiful friend, Loretta Rose Cinefucco, who has left the California wine industry to come to Los Angeles to manage the film studio's executive dining room and plan the opening of her own restaurant. The frenetic atmosphere of professional kitchens and the translation of that into both the movie and the TV programmes is well shown. There is a very convincing atmosphere in the various food venues shown -- the executive dining room and studio arrangements, the top rated restaurants and the TV set up for programmes. Dramatic confrontations abound and numerous individuals seem egotistic enough to murder those who thwart them. Meanwhile Max is single minded in his pursuit of a superb film about chefs though he spares time to demonstrate his long-standing love of Margot in ways that surprise her. Margot interests herself in the connections between the dramatic contemporary events and past happenings; she gradually fits the disparate items together to make a coherent picture. There is much mayhem on the way to the final solution.
Reviewed by Jennifer S. Palmer, August 2005
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