Of all the magnificent works penned by the legendary writing team of Kauffman and Hart, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" stands alone as a true masterpiece of its genre. Arguably the greatest American drawing room comedy of all time, the show opened on Broadway in 1939 starring Monty Wooly as Sheridan Whiteside (a role he would later repeat on screen), and was an immediate success. Though over sixty years old, the work has stood the test of time as its multilayered plot, and bizare characters remain as funny today as they were when first performed. Though no experience can compare to viewing the play on stage, listening to Moss Hart read the script aloud is definitely a worthy and often fascinating substitute. To those who love comedy, and the grand theatre of a bygone era, I recommend this tape without reservation!

In 1958, Justin Bloom supposedly killed his girl friend and fled the area. This led to a public scandal and outrage towards the prominent family. Most people believed what they read in the papers since the eye witness to the shooting was a well respected police officer. Forty years have passed and Justin has never been found. Most people believe that he is dead. His mother Heda has just bought a Minnesota radio station where Bram Baldric is a talk show host. Brian is married to Sophie Greenway, owner of the plush Maxfield Plaza Hotel.

Heda is reviving the old radio serial, Dallas Lane, Private Eye. The show airs weekly, but in actuality is a thinly disguised version of the Bloom case. All the participants from four decades ago are living in the area and many star in the show. It is obvious that the more information that is presented, the more agitated the players become. Bram and Sophie begin to realize that Heda is trying to prove that her son is innocent by providing his account of what happened all those years ago. This is one show that is making someone very edgy, enough so that someone else connected to the case is murdered.

Ellen Hart is a great mystery writer who creates innovative stories. In this case, every few chapters, a letter is sent from Justin to his mother that gradually explains how the chief suspect sees that fatal day. Readers receive a brilliantly developed historical perspective with a contemporary resolution. There are plenty of red herrings, double identities, and sleight of the hand incidents to keep readers fully absorbed in MURDER IN THE AIR, a who-done-it that should earn Ms. Hart another award.

Harriet Klausner

Wow! novelist Anne Hart does it again with a great adventure! Terrific, fantastic. I love the humor and satire in the adventure as well as the suspense, intrigue, and mystery. This is another one of the best books from the popular novelist.

A GREAT read . It was avery sweet love story . A nice change from from arrogent men and ditzy females .

This biography of Thomas Hart Benton is an outstanding look at not only the man, but the politics of an era. While many are familiar with the names and actions of Clay, Webster, and Calhoun, few are so familiar with the fourth member of this "quadumvirate." Benton was every bit as eloquent, influential, and powerful as his contemporaries, but his contributions seem to have been overshadowed in popular conception by his fellow Democrats, Andrew Jackson and Stephen Douglass. For the first time we see a man driven to represent his adopted state (Missouri), his penchant for engaging in duels (he once shot Andrew Jackson who carried the bullet for twenty years), and his sincere desire to aid the working man in the expansion of the new West. Benton's thirty-plus year career spans from the age of the founding fathers to the beginnings of the sectional crisis of the Civil War. This work is a must read for those interested in the politics of the Jacksonian era which led to the Civil War.