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Magpie Murders
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Overview
Written in the spirit of British mystery writer Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling whodunit novel Magpie Murders (2017) is a cleverly spun and endlessly suspenseful thriller that is actually a story within a story. Horowitz argues that his mystery novel occupies a unique genre and has the ability to leave the reader with a satisfying ending. Set in present-day London and a quaint English village in the 1940s, the devious and dark story takes its cues from vintage English crime fiction where the reader becomes the sleuth.
Plot Summary
The story begins when book editor Susan Ryeland receives a manuscript for bestselling author Alan Conway. After working with Alan for years, Susan is intimately familiar with his classic detective character, Atticus Pünd. Alan’s novels are set in small English villages where everybody knows everybody. Atticus solves grisly mysteries in these sleepy, secret-harboring communities. The novels pay homage to the greats of crime fiction, including Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle.
In Alan’s latest story, Magpie Murders, Atticus investigates two related deaths in the small town of Saxby-on-Avon. Although Atticus is terminally ill, he travels to the town to unravel the mystery in a last act of detective work.
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