Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Copyright: 1976
ISBN: 0385113056
This is a very interesting book that is well written, that I enjoyed a lot. It is a first person account of a semi-successful writer attending the 75th ABA (American Booksellers Association) Conference in 1975. He, Darius Just, discovers the body of another writer whom he knows very well. Just is convinced that his friend was murdered, and to assuage his guilty conscience as he failed to do something for him he makes it his goal to prove it, when nobody else believes him.
Darius Just is the narrator, and we are taken on a journey as we discover through his thoughts and actions how he determines who killed his friend. We meet a number of other people at the conference, including Isaac Asimov, (who was actually there) and get a bit of a taste of what a booksellers conference might be like.
While it isn't a long novel, the plot is very well thought out--as is typical with all of Dr. Asimov's novels--and it keeps you in suspense to the very end.
One interesting little fact is that Isaac Asimov was actually contracted to write a story by his publisher entitled "Murder At The ABA", and while all the characters (except himself) and actions in the novel are fictitious it is an enjoyable to read.
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