The Vicious Circle

Mysteries & Crime Stories from the Algonquin Round Table

De: Otto Penzler - editor

Narrado por: James Romick

The mystery and crime fiction of the Algonquin Round Table.

With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table.

The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, novelists Edna Ferber and Alexander Woollcott, and most famously, Dorothy Parker, were the literary luminaries who made up this group, and each one produced a piece or two of crime fiction at some point, which have been collected in this anthology by acclaimed mystery editor Otto Penzler.

©2007 Otto Penzler (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Personalities and witt

This book had a collection of the writers and critics of the Algonquin round table. It's an interesting read to listen too. It's a tidbit of how these people were around the decades of the 1920s through 40s.