Magpie Murders : A Novel Hardcover - 2017
by Anthony Horowitz
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Details
- Title Magpie Murders : A Novel
- Author Anthony Horowitz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Canada, Limited, New York
- Date 2017
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0062645226I5N01
- ISBN 9780062645227 / 0062645226
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 4.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Library Reads
- Library of Congress subjects Murder mysteries, Detective and mystery fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016045021
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
From the author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller interweaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie with an equally ingenious modern-day mystery that transforms the reader into the detective.
Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pnd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan's traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It's proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pnd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan
reads, the more she realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript--one of ambition, jealousy, and greed--and that soon it will lead to murder.
Masterful, clever, and ruthlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage crime fiction.
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/2017, Page 34
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2017, Page 44
- Library Journal, 04/01/2017, Page 65
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2017, Page 66
- Publishers Weekly, 02/06/2017, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 07/04/2017, Page 0