The Vintage Caper
Peter Mayle$15.30
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A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters from the national bestselling author of A Year in Provence and our most treasured chronicler of French life. "Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu's worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks." --USA Today
The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle's seductive renderings of France's sensory delights--from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille--guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2010
ISBN: 9780307389190
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.70d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/25/2010 pg. 20
The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle's seductive renderings of France's sensory delights--from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille--guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2010
ISBN: 9780307389190
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.70d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/25/2010 pg. 20