The Carp in the Bathtub by Barbara Cohen

School & Library Binding | Tandem Library | Pub. Read moreĬarp In The Bathtub (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Leah and her brother hatch a plan to save the Passover carp from the cooking pot. Read moreīy Barbara Cohen Joan Halpern(Illustrator) A tale about the 'wise people of Chelm.'. ISBN: 093049489X | ISBN-13: 9780930494896īerl steals the recipe for Malke's light and crunchy potato latkes, but the results are just not the same. Let's face it, real shots often sound a lot like firecrackers, and this is a mystery Blog.Joan Halpern Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstoresĬan't find your books? Search Joan Halpern through our rare/our-of-print search system So, I'm off to Chinatown where I can see the parade of dragons and hear the firecrackers, or at least I hope that's what they are. Must be because of the paucity of titles I've been able to come up with. Speaking of food, here's a great article from Salon on 'The Carp in the Bathtub' by Alan Deutschman for all you foodies out there.īut I digress. Now carp reminds me of another holiday completely, and one of my favorite holiday books, not a mystery, is The Carp in the Bathtub by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Joan Halpern. Did you know that carp is a typical main course o n New Year's Eve? Carp symbolizes a profitable year ahead. During my search I discovered some information about typical foods for Chinese New Year. I seem to remember a mystery by William Marshall (Yellowthread Street mysteries) set during Chinese New Year, but I may be mistaken.

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik (7th Century china) 'New Year's Eve in Lan-Fang'Īnd, a short story by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer: 'The Lady Fish Mystery', EQMM, September/October 1996.

I'd love to find out which ones I'm missing. Yes, there's the Nancy Drew, The Chinese New Year Mystery that's part of the Nancy Drew Notebooks ( by Carolyn Keene and Jan Naimo Jones), but I was looking for adult mysteries. Living in San Francisco, the City that Knows How, I thought I'd put together a special mystery list for Chinese New Year! This wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I love holiday mysteries, as you probably know if you've been following this Blog. 恭賀發財 Gung Ho Fat Choy! This is the Year of the Ox.