George's prize-winning Raspberry Chiffon Cake has earned her, Bess, and Nancy a week at the Wolfe Culinary Institute in upstate New York. But soon after their arrival, Nancy discovers that ambition, jealousy, and greed are also on the menu. Attempted murder provides plenty of food for thought, but that's a mere appetizer to the dangers to come.

In her search for the chef with a taste for terror, Nancy knows she'll have to watch her diet and watch her back. The kitchen is crammed with suspects, and tensions are fast coming to a boil. The knives are all sharp, the ingredients are all poison, and the final course?most likely fatal?has yet to be served!

Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books.