Monkey Business - by Josh Pachter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>A Night at the Opera</em>, <em>A Day at the Races</em>, <em> Duck Soup</em>, <em> Animal Crackers</em>...over the two decades between 1929's <em>The Cocoanuts</em> and 1949's <em>Love Happy</em>, the Marx Brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo-entertained movie-goers around the world with their madcap antics, rapid-fire dialogue, and prowess on the piano, the harp, and in song.</p><p><br></p><p>Now, a Who's Who of award-winning crime writers pays homage to the Marxes in fourteen short stories, each inspired by one of the brothers' thirteen studio films. (Wait a second: fourteen stories inspired by thirteen films? How does <em>that</em> add up? You'll find the answer to that question...and so much more!...inside the covers of this book.)</p><p><br></p><p>The authors? Donna Andrews, Frankie Y. Bailey, Jeff Cohen, Lesley A. Diehl, Brendan DuBois, Terence Faherty, Barb Goffman, Joseph Goodrich, Robert Lopresti, Sandra Murphy, Robert J. Randisi, Marilyn Todd, Joseph S. Walker, and editor Josh Pachter, who is a recent recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement and the editor of two previous "inspired by" anthologies from Untreed Reads, <em>The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell</em> and <em>Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel.</em></p><p><br></p><p>To paraphrase Groucho: Outside of a dog, this book will be your best friend. (Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)</p>
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