Status Updates From The Murder at the Stork Clu...

That's it? Like, the motive is good, but they had zero evidence, so he just grabbed the gun and outed himself? Why? Maybe if we knew more about him as a character. Ugh.

He didn't know she was in love with him?! Idiot.

From the first story, a blatant (read: delightful) WWII propaganda story: "A home, like a homeland, must give freedom, or those who dwell in it are no more than prisoners." I wonder if Caspary was also directing this comment towards Japanese American internment?

After initial editing goofs, I did not even want to pick it up again, but it was a gift from my daughter, so let's be polite. Glad I cont. because it does get much more interesting. Funny to hear all of my late parents' slang terms come out of these pages!

There are 3 short stories and a novella here, the titled story, to which I skipped. The Stork Club was owned by a long-dead great-uncle of mine. I never met him, and my parents preferred it that way, but it is still interesting to see the club featured in a story. "Billingsley" is spelled correctly in intro, then spelled w/o the "e", incorrectly, a bunch of times afterward. Grating!