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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Request for novels on bookshops and/
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 17:12:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 17:12:40 1985
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Summary: Clarification re Murder at the ABA

Don Porges (porges@inmet.UUCP) writes:
> 	Another book about books might be Isaac Asimov's MURDER AT THE ABA,
> which I confess to not having read.  It's about a murder at the American
> Booksellers Association, a real event ...

Um, that IS rather ambiguous.

Let me clarify:  the ABA *convention*, where the story is set, was indeed
an actual event.  As a matter of fact, since Asimov was there gathering
material for the book, he wrote himself into the story as a minor character.
This leads to humor which all fans of Asimov's writing-about-self will enjoy.

The *murder*, however, is entirely fictional.
I really enjoyed the book, like just about all of Asimov's fiction.

Mark Brader