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430 p
Summary:
"At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen, but his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own. Despite the pressures, all his hard work looks set to pay off. Until the discovery of a porter's dead body in the kitchen appears to tip the scales"--Back cover