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).
Many of the late Victor Mollo's most recent Menagerie articles have been collected here in book form by his co-authors of Winning Bridge in the Menagerie.
The characters at the Griffins Club established Mollo's reputation as one of bridge's most inspired and humorous writers. Now a fresh generation of readers will be able to enjoy the Hideous Hog and the Rueful Rabbit.
ANSWERS (88) K. The A and 5 Declarer needs no more than four club tricks for his contract, but he must try to keep out South since a spade from him through the K 4, might prove fatal. If North has the guarded queen of clubs declarer's ...
... trumps Walter would have made one more trick?” “Not quite,” replied the Hog. “Whether declarer or the defenders had the ace of trumps would have made no difference. Either way Walter makes ten tricks ... trifling with him. He needed a sharp ...
This classic card-play book by Victor Mollo is given a new dimension by the use of the Menagerie characters.
Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie is on any list of the all-time top ten books on the game. The stories it contains, originally published in the 1960s in Bridge Magazine and The Bridge World, found a worldwide audience in book form.
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