Murder Your Darlings: Algonquin Round Table Mystery (An Algonquin Round Table Mystery, #1)

by J.J. Murphy

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.

• ISBN10: 0451231996
• ISBN13: 9780451231994
• Publish Date: 4 January 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
• Imprint: Signet
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780451231994

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

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 shallow to me - more shallow than the time/place called for. I didn't hate the book, but I found myself skimming over enough of it that I'm not sure if I'll read the next one or not. Will depend on the size of my TBR pile I suppose. :)