A friendly game of murder
Subtitle: an Algonquin Round Table mystery
By: J. J. Murphy
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Algonquin Round Table mystery
Publisher: Obsidian
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780451238993
Subjects: Illustrators; Algonquin Round Table; Investigation; Nineteen twenties; Authors; Murder; Fiction
Description: "Why should Dorothy Parker's friends be the only ones making "enviable names" in "science, art, and parlor games"? Dorothy can play with the best of them--as she sets out to prove at a New Year's Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of "Murder"? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure--they won't be making gin in that bathtub. When more partiers are put in peril, it becomes clear the game is indeed on, and it's up to Dorothy, surprise guest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the members of the Round Table to stay alive--and relatively sober--long enough to find the killer..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "An Obsidian mystery."