The Body in the Cast

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I would like to thank Raymond Norman, owner, and Meg Bezucha of Media\Gourmet, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, for all of their\advice, and my cousin Elizabeth Samenfeld-Specht for permission to use her delicious Sugar and Spice Cookie recipe. Thanks also, as always, to my editor, Ruth Gavin.

Editors Note

The Body in the Cast includes, at the end of the story, five full recipes from Faith Fairchild's (fictional) cookbook, Have Faith in Your Kitchen, as well as a number of descriptions in the text of the way Faith makes some of her delectable dishes.

Believe me, Hester, there are few things,—whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import.

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