Last Call in the Menagerie

by Victor Mollo

Just about every bridge player over forty has read Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued to write stories about the same well-loved characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), but they appeared in various magazines around the world, and if you weren't a subscriber, you didn't get to read them. This is the final MPP anthology of these lost Menagerie gems, collected for the first time in book form (following The Hog Takes to Precision, Diamonds are the Hog's Best Friend and Swings and Arrows). Victor Mollo is everyone's favorite bridge humorist, and a genuinely new book from him will be greeted as something to be treasured. Illustrations by bridge cartoonist Bill Buttle add to the fun.

230 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2015

Reviews

[Philip William · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the final book of the menagerie collection by Victor Mollo.

If you have not read any "menagerie" books before do not start with this one.

If you have read previous ones then you don't need my recommendation; you either like this style or you do not.

[Mark Buchignani · Rating 4 out of 5]

The themes and settings will be familiar to fans of the Menagerie, but that subtracts nothing from the enjoyment. As the final volume of Mollo's stories, it is a sad occasion for all bridge players, but this book will bring smiles as all the others have for some fifty years.