Between A Wok and A Hard Place: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes by Tamar Myers (1998)

My delicious colleague and fellow avid reader Judi Keller informed me a popular food mystery by author Tamar Myers includes a reference to Scranton in her 1998 book Between A Wok and A Hard Place: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes.

Set in Pennsylvania Amish Country, the mystery involves an Asian tourist found strangled and run over by a horse and buggy and attempts to find out who (or what) killed him. Recipes for the food described in the story are included throughout the book.

From page 168 of the paperback version:

"'We still can't get over how he broke his leg,' the sheriff said, laughing. 'Is it true he once shipped his cousin in Philadelphia a gallon of ice cream by UPS?'
"'He shipped the ice cream to his cousin in Scranton,' I sniffed, and pointed my shnoz skyward."

Between a Wok and A Hard Place is available to borrow from libraries throughout the Lackawanna County Library System. To place a hold on the paperback, click here; to place a hold on the Large Print version, click here.

Much thanks again to the eternally awesome Judi Keller for this reference.