Dorothy Parker was the queen of the New York literary
society in the 1920's, spitting out witty sayings such
as "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," and
lunching with other authors at the Algonquin Hotel. Now she
is the star of MURDER YOUR DARLINGS, the first book in
the Algonquin Round Table Mystery series by author J.J.
Murphy.
When Dorothy discovers a prominent critic under her group's
famed round table stabbed with a fountain pen, all kinds
of mayhem breaks loose.When her pal William Faulkner
becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy takes the
situation in hand and puts her mind at work trying to
deduce the identity of the real killer. With a little help
from her Round Table group, she dances circles around New
York society as she bounces from clue to clue and party to
party, all the while hoping to "round" up the suspect
before the ink dries on the headlines.
Capturing the wild and crazy times of 1920s New York,
author J.J. Murphy bring a charming sense of history to her
mystery in this delightful debut story. With such a lively
cast of characters to choose from, I predict that
the Algonquin Round Table Mystery series will be one that
fans of cozy mysteries will look forward to for a long time
to come.
One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone
under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little
early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead
drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi
named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder,
Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work,
enlisting her literary cohorts.
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.
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