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When caterer Goldy Schulz stumbles upon a dead paralegal while on her latest catering job at a local law firm, she does her own snooping to find the killer, at the behest of the victim's mother, and is soon knee-deep in suspects.

Horace feels really mean at the end of a bad day, until he helps his mother make Mean Soup.

"Look at what I can make. I can make an ice cream cake! One scoop, two scoops, ice cream goop. I think I made some ice cream soup!"--P. [4] of cover.

A child recounts a family's annual applesauce-making ritual, from buying apples at a farmer's market, through cooking and milling the fruit, to eating the finished product on potato pancakes, gingerbread, or even plain.