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The First Three — Agata Stanford
The First Three: The first three photo enhanced novels of Agata Stanford's mystery series, The Broadway Murders, Chasing the Devil and Mystic Mah Jong! Pull up your chair at the Algonquin Hotel's famous daily luncheon and enjoy a tossed salad of bon mots, all while sleuthing about with Parker and her partner in crime-solving, Robert Benchley. Enjoy the adventures!
The Broadway Murders : When Broadway producer Reginald Ignatius Pierce is found dead in his luxurious apartment, it is believed he choked on a cherry tomato. That he was not murdered is a surprise for Parker, Benchley. But for the fact that RIP was allergic to tomatoes, his death might have been deemed accidental.
Chasing the Devil: New York City, Christmas of 1925. Watch alongside Dorothy as balloons explode over the spectators at the first R.H. Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, step out of your Duesenberg to storm the staid University Club with the Marx Brothers, do the rounds of speakeasies, attend a Noel Coward's play opening night on Broadway, and then dance at the cast party, while searching for clues to find an assassin.
Mystic Mah Jong: Halloween 1926, and while across the nation people are glued to their radios, New Yorkers are packing in the new Yankee Stadium to watch the Babe knock another ball out of the park in the World Series games against the St. Louis Cardinals. It is the era of sensational newspaper coverage by sob-sister reporters dishing out trial coverage of women accused of gunning down the men who dun 'em wrong -- ‘gin and guns, either one is bad enough, but together they get you into a dickens of a mess' -- Parker and Benchley confront gun-toting criminals of their own while investigating a rash of murders of psychics who should have seen it coming.
The Broadway Murders : When Broadway producer Reginald Ignatius Pierce is found dead in his luxurious apartment, it is believed he choked on a cherry tomato. That he was not murdered is a surprise for Parker, Benchley. But for the fact that RIP was allergic to tomatoes, his death might have been deemed accidental.
Chasing the Devil: New York City, Christmas of 1925. Watch alongside Dorothy as balloons explode over the spectators at the first R.H. Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, step out of your Duesenberg to storm the staid University Club with the Marx Brothers, do the rounds of speakeasies, attend a Noel Coward's play opening night on Broadway, and then dance at the cast party, while searching for clues to find an assassin.
Mystic Mah Jong: Halloween 1926, and while across the nation people are glued to their radios, New Yorkers are packing in the new Yankee Stadium to watch the Babe knock another ball out of the park in the World Series games against the St. Louis Cardinals. It is the era of sensational newspaper coverage by sob-sister reporters dishing out trial coverage of women accused of gunning down the men who dun 'em wrong -- ‘gin and guns, either one is bad enough, but together they get you into a dickens of a mess' -- Parker and Benchley confront gun-toting criminals of their own while investigating a rash of murders of psychics who should have seen it coming.
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