Tuesday, November 2, 2021

California Buns Appease Cora More Than Cigarettes in Puzzled Indemnity


Summary: California buns appease Cora more than cigarettes in Puzzled Indemnity, 16th in the Puzzle Lady series by author Parnell Hall, and less than coffee.


Pepperoni pizza appeals to Cora perhaps every time she ascends to attorney Becky Baldwin's law office above the Bakerhaven pizza parlor. It assists her for nine days while she attempts to stop smoking cigarettes. Day 10 it attracts her less than the cigarettes she appreciates in the smoking alley behind the pizza parlor: Nenad Stojkovic from Srbija (shixart1985), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

California buns appease Cora more than cigarettes in Puzzled Indemnity, 16th of 20 mysteries in the Puzzle Lady series by author Parnell Hall, and perhaps less than caffeinated, decaffeinated or latte coffee.
Braving nine days without cigarettes boosts the abdominal bulges on Cora Felton, already 10 to 20 pounds beyond best weights for women her age and height. The private investigator compensated by Baldwin law office, not compensated by Bakerhaven police station, consumes niece Sherry Carter Grant’s hot coffee from caffeinated and decaffeinated brands. She downs cold and hot drinks and foods also destined by Sherry for Bakerhaven Gazette reporter and husband Aaron Grant and two-year-old daughter Jennifer Carter Grant.
Cora’s toy poodle Buddy eats dog kibble and puppy biscuits of unelucidated brands even as Jennifer expects her homebound three-meal mate to enjoy her sweet potatoes.

Cora never favors tea furnished by Sherry or fellow sudoku puzzle-solver Harvey Beerbaum even as she finds it in her favor from Brittany Wells and Stephanie.
Gallivanting around big cities and small towns grounds Cora in Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop and Starbucks coffee and scones and in Brittany’s and Stephanie’s home-brewed coffees. Mary Cushman has a folding table holding a coffee urn, cream and sugar condiments and coffee cups and lids for the six-man Bakerhaven volunteer fire department. Hot coffee inundated or not with cold cream impels barber and volunteer firefighter Kevin Greaves back to first-ever Bakerhaven arson, which involves a car-bombed Chevy Impala.
California buns join the daily Manhattan-made fare at Mary Cushman’s Bake Shop and therefore her daily diet whenever Cora journeys away from the Carter/Felton/Grant country joint.

Pepperoni scents from, and smoking alley behind, the pizza parlor below Baldwin law office kindle Cora not keeping the 10th day cigarettes-free after nine non-smoking days.
Over-milked, over-sugared hot coffee logically leads Cora to Cushman latte (from Latin lac, via Italian latte, “milk”) over the Country Kitchen bar’s scotch on the rocks. Cora maneuvers attorney Becky Baldwin into munching on a California bun with Cushman-made latte, Brittany into Cushman scone-munching and Stephanie into Cushman scone-munching with Cushman-made latte. Sergeant Crowley needs coffee black, not sweetened by sugar or sugar substitutes, and without simultaneously nibbling croissants sugar-dipped, rolled bun-like, and baked into honey-glazed California buns.
Crowley, like Becky, and Hank Wells’ office co-worker, Randy Klein, like Cora once, order Irish whiskey and scotch and, unlike all, perhaps never order California buns.

Cora and Crowley ponder Indian cuisine versus Thai cuisine as ordered-in food for delivery to the latter’s leased, owned, rented or sublet apartment in Greenwich Village.
Perhaps chive pancakes, coconut-crusted shrimp, curry puffs and pad thai delivered to Crowley quarters quicken regular-speed tailing by Cora, Crowley, Perkins and Stephanie of murder suspects. Nobody reveals accompanying drinks even though Stephanie previously relished diner coffee with Hank’s insurance client, Madeline Greer; unspecified alcohol with Randy; and Crowley coffee with Cora. Crowley and Stephanie slipping away for Aaron’s exclusive scoop steers Cora away from a cranberry muffin and from a latte like the one she already sipped.
Cora takes a California bun and tells Bakerhaven Police Chief Dale Harper to try one but not to take more than three California buns a day.

Cora appreciates Thai cuisine so much that she attempts an order twice, once with Sergeant Crowley and a second time with Crowley, Crowley's girlfriend Stephanie and Crowley's New York Police Department Officer Perkins. The second time she arranges for chive pancakes, coconut-crusted shrimp and pad thai (from Thai ผัด, "stir fry [rice noodle dish]" and ไทย, "Thai"). Perhaps they arrest two murder suspects before they are able to access their order, perhaps the worse for travel from the West Side to a New Jersey motel near Seventeen South: Andy Mitchell from Glasgow, UK (Andy_Mitchell_UK), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:
Pepperoni pizza appeals to Cora perhaps every time she ascends to attorney Becky Baldwin's law office above the Bakerhaven pizza parlor. It assists her for nine days while she attempts to stop smoking cigarettes. Day 10 it attracts her less than the cigarettes she appreciates in the smoking alley behind the pizza parlor; pad thai with prawn, photo taken March 13, 2010: Nenad Stojkovic from Srbija (shixart1985), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homemade_cheese_pizza_with_pepperoni_and_salami._Mix_pizza_in_the_restaurant._(49134398781).jpg
Cora appreciates Thai cuisine so much that she attempts an order twice, once with Sergeant Crowley and a second time with Crowley, Crowley's girlfriend Stephanie and Crowley's New York Police Department Officer Perkins. The second time she arranges for chive pancakes, coconut-crusted shrimp and pad thai (from Thai ผัด, "stir fry [rice noodle dish]" and ไทย, "Thai"). Perhaps they arrest two murder suspects before they are able to access their order, perhaps the worse for travel from the West Side to a New Jersey motel near Seventeen South: Andy Mitchell from Glasgow, UK (Andy_Mitchell_UK), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pad_Thai_with_Prawn_(4448808420).jpg

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