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Agata Stanford’s forth novel in her Dorothy Parker Mysteries Series,
Death Rides the Midnight Owl, has the Regulars of the Algonquin Hotel Round Table in the middle of murder and mayhem.
Reviewed by Mr. Tomato
In this fast paced murder mystery, Agata Stanford has again recreated the atmosphere of the 1920s Algonquin crowd with their witty conversation and glib repartee. She makes Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, the Marx Brothers and the rest of the gang come alive with her fast paced and breezy writing style.
It all starts out on April 23, 1927 at Boston’s South Station with Dorothy and Robert catching the Midnight Owl train to New York. Riding on the train with them are a mysterious veiled lady, a millionaire couple, a famous socialist muckraker, a bunch of partying Harvard boys, various anarchists and reds. All against the background of the execution of two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were to die in the electric chair at midnight.
The mysterious veiled lady is murdered in the compartment across the hall from Dorothy’s and the fun begins. Parker and Benchley immediately swing into their crime solving mode which leads to a flapper era party on a palatial estate on Long Island’s North Shore and a hilarious romp at Tiffany’s with the Marx Brothers pulling their usual antics.
Agata Stanford is an actress, director and playwright who grew up in New York City. While attending The School of Performing Arts, she would often walk past the Algonquin Hotel, which sparked her early interest in the legendary Algonquin Round Table. She has written seven plays and two musicals. She is currently at work on the next novel of her Dorothy Parker Mystery Series.
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Dorothy Parker Mystery Series.
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The Original Mystery Series Starring Dorothy Parker! In 1924, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott solved the Broadway Murders. Well, they did so in my new book, The Broadway Murders, the first novel of my new mystery series entitled, Dorothy Parker Mysteries. Between daily luncheons at the Algonquin Hotel, opening night parties at the Waldorf, orange blossoms at Tony Soma’s Speakeasy, scavenger hunts with The Marx Brothers and poker games with the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club, the trio occasionally found a few minutes to write and catch murderers.
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Chasing the Devil
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Death Rides the Midnight Owl
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