In the Kitchen (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Tapa dura

Gabriel Lightfoot, originally from a northern England mill town, is making good in London as executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, in under constant challenge from the competing demands of a multinational staff, gimlet-eyed hotel management, and secret plans to start his own restaurant. Not to mention the worker found dead in the basement...