Chasing the Devil: A Dorothy Parker Mystery

by Agata Stanford

Overview

It wasn't enough that the Toy Soldier should meet his disastrous end on the heels of Felix the Cat's midair explosion over Broadway at the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but to add insult to injury, Dorothy Parker comes face to face with a crazed murderer. War-weary Americans are taking a sober look at our nation's Bill of Rights at a time when no one cares to be sober, even though sobriety is the law of the land. The Scopes Monkey Trial has tested separation of church and state, and although sixty years have passed since the Thirteenth Amendment became law, Negros still suffer indignities from the resurging power of the Klan after the release of Birth of a Nation. While Parker and Benchley search for an assassin, the reader is joyously carried along to Harlem's famous Cotton Club, to the opening night of Noel Coward's new play, Hay Fever, for a romp through the University Club with Groucho Marx and a chase through Hubert's Museum, winding up high above a jam-packed crowd in Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013079397
Publisher:	Jenevacris Press
Publication date:	11/22/2010
Series:	Dorothy Parker Mysteries , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	345
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Agata Stanford is an actress, director, and playwright who grew up in New York City. While attending the School of Performing Arts, she’d often walk past the Algonquin Hotel, which sparked her early interest in the legendary Algonquin Round Table.

Editorial Reviews

If you like murder mysteries, the fast-paced action, witty conversation, and glib repartee of the flapper era, you will love Agata Stanford's recreation of the atmosphere of the crowd at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s.

TheThreeTomatoes.com - Mr. Tomato

Dorothy Parker and the Regulars of the Algonquin Hotel Round Table are alive and well in Agata Stanford's The Broadway Murders. Descriptions are fantastic in this who-dunnit as Stanford writes very colorfully. This is an adult's picture book, too, which in the end turned out to be pretty terrific.

Suspense Magazine - Terri Ann Armstrong

If you like murder mysteries, the fast-paced action, witty conversation, and glib repartee of the flapper era, you will love Agata Stanford’s recreation of the atmosphere of the crowd at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s.

Mr. Tomato

Dorothy Parker and the Regulars of the Algonquin Hotel Round Table are alive and well in Agata Stanford’s The Broadway Murders. Descriptions are fantastic in this who-dunnit as Stanford writes very colorfully. This is an adult’s picture book, too, which in the end turned out to be pretty terrific.

Terri Ann Armstrong