![]() Conway’s editor, Susan Ryeland, is Horowitz’s narrator as she settles down to read her author’s latest: “You can’t beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn’t seen it from the start. Blakiston’s death is a story within a story, the work of a crime novelist, one Alan Conway, whose vintage tales of murders solved by the wonderfully umlauted German detective Atticus Pünd regularly top the bestseller lists. ![]() In Magpie Murders, Horowitz tries something a little different: he pastiches the cosy country murder stories of Agatha Christie, setting his whodunnit in the sleepy 1950s English village of Saxby-on-Avon, where the widely disliked Mary Blakiston has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in Pye Hall, the grand house where she worked as a housekeeper.Įxcept he doesn’t really do this at all. ![]() He’s taken on Arthur Conan Doyle in The House of Silk. I wont rehash the whole plot here, as the synopsis and other existing reviews have covered that ground already. The format here is again similar, in that there is a book contained within a book. A killer with a fiendish plot: a brilliantly intricate and original thriller from the. ![]() Anthony Horowitz has ventriloquised Ian Fleming in Trigger Mortis. In 'Moonflower Murders' we are reintroduced to Susan Ryeland, whom we first met a few years ago in the wonderful 'Magpie Murders'. Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary. ![]()
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