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Too Many Cooks

Stout, Rex
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mystery cozy mystery past tense first POV ~315 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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satirical ironic whimsical

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence, humor.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 80
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 20%
noneexplicit
Humor 90%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count78,757
Page count~315 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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