![]() ![]() ![]() Buoying interest are recipes from the PennDutch kitchen, a sizzling scene in a six-seat outhouse and an impending romance for Magdalena. ![]() But Myers bets too much on the entertainment value of Magdalena's zingers, which, like the heavy-handed contrast between Hollywood trendiness and stolid country values, become tedious. The strength-and the weakness-of this tale is the acid-tongued voice of the heroine, who demonstrates her quick wit at the expense of others (including, here, a star-struck preacher's wife and her own promiscuous sister). Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery, Book 1 By: Tamar Myers Narrated by: Caroline Miller Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins 5.0 (3 ratings) Try for £0.00 Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go. When numbskull local police chief Melvin Stoltzfus suspects Magdalena, the shrewd lady begins to clear her name by interviewing some of the more likely suspects in the nearby town of Hernia, Penn., (pop. The murder of an assistant director, whose body is found pinned to a barn post by a pitchfork, shocks everyone. After her first appearance in Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth, dowdy Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder, 44, remains chaste and abstemious, and still in possession of her keen mind and sharp tongue, which she unleashes upon some Hollywood sleazoids shooting a movie at her country inn, the PennDutch. ![]()
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