Murder Your Darlings (Algonquin Round Table Mystery #1)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101476796 (1101476796)
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: New American Library
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: An Algonquin Round Table Mystery (#1)
I'm going to make this really quick and informal- I've put off this review too long and now it's just bugging me. Here's the synopsis from the back: On this particular morning, legendary wit Dorothy Parker is not the one under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. Someone else is-- and he's...
This was an interesting premise. What if Dorothy Parker stumbled across a dead body at the Algonquin while meeting the Vicious Circle for lunch? While the premise seems far fetched. The story is fun and the writing is zany. Fun read for fans of the 1920s.
I was really looking forward to this one, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The writing seemed a bit manic to me, as if it were more important to the author to pack in the witticisms (which were really good, btw) than it was to write a thoughtful story. The result felt a bit shal...
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