The intrepid Miss Marple is getting on and now has a full-time nurse, but the little grey cells are still working overtime. When celebrity Marina Gregg moves to St. Mary Mead, it's amazing how many people turn up at her first house party, claiming to be old friends. When one of them ends up dead, it looks like the lethal cocktail might have been meant for Marina herself.
T S Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party' - Audiobook - BBC
Broadcast December 14, 2003
Superficially a comedy of manners, a party host's spouse has gone missing, guests are arriving and appearances have to be maintained. An uninvited guest arrives and sets things to rights.
In this entertaining homage to the golden age of the cocktail, illustrator Edward Hemingway and writer Mark Bailey present the best (and thirstiest) American writers, their favorite cocktails, true stories of their saucy escapades, and intoxicating excerpts from their literary works. It’s the perfect blend of classic cocktail recipes, literary history, and tales of the good old days of extravagant Martini lunches and delicious excess.
Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets—a totally effective, foolproof guide to starting and sustaining conversations on every topic under the sun. Want to wax wise about barbarians, socialist theory, and jazz musicians? What about Keynesian economics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and James Joyce's Ulysses? Well, it's all right here in front of you.
Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.