Some marvelous long-forgotten recipes for many of those classic British dishes referred to-sometimes as the weapon of choice-in the works of Agatha Christie.

Along with luscious pictures of the dishes are gorgeous photos of the places where Christie might have tasted them, from her home in Ashfield, to Greenway House on the Dart, to Abney Hall. In side-bars the authors have added the corresponding passages from Christie’s work referring to the recipe: that scene where Poirot inspects an inauspiscious-looking dish of mushrooms; Jane Marple catching a whiff of poison emanating from the Christmas Pudding; and more.