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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and thin,
This review is from: The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (Paperback)
These stories may disappoint as mysteries, but they're all good and some of them are classic, like Lardner's "Haircut" and Dorothy Parker's "Big Blonde." The book's one drawback is its slimness: a mere twelve selections, some of them only five pages long -- and even at that, Perelman gets three selections and other authors get two. It's as if mysteries by Algonquin round table members were pretty thin on the ground. Good quotes, good introductions -- an excellent anthology that is over much too soon.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best book I've read in a while,
By Lin Richard (West Lafayette,Oh.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (Hardcover)
I wasn't really sure what I would get when I ordered this book,but the many different authors included cinched it as a good buy.Yes,you should read this book,it is filled with so many clever and acid blurbs from a bygone era,yet upon reading you become immursed in it and the book really is timeless.
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The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table by Otto Penzler (Paperback - January 6, 2009)
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