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Book Review of Murder Your Darlings (Algonquin Round Table, Bk 1)

Murder Your Darlings (Algonquin Round Table, Bk 1)
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I like to have a martini, -- Two at the very most. -- After three I'm under the table, -- After four I'm under my host. -- -- Dorothy Parker -- 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 not dead drunk, just dead. -- When a charming aspiring writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting the help of tablemates Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, Robert Sherwood, and other famous and fabulous literary cohorts.

With a marvelous Manhattan mystery on their hands, it's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit -- preferably before cocktail hour -- and before the clever killer turns the tables on them....