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Oct 6, 2016 · Magpie Murders. Anthony Horowitz. 3.95. 141,808 ratings16,481 reviews. 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 Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages.
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Dec 11, 2022 · Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz is a fun and extremely clever slice of detective fiction a book within a book, starting Susan Ryeand and Atticus Pund. Reads like a greatest hits tribute to the golden age of crime mystery novels.
The novel within the novel, also titled Magpie Murders, has all the fixings of a murder in the English countryside, with a fussy detective, a daft sidekick, a meddling busybody, a peculiar...
Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the first novel in the Susan Ryeland series. The story focuses on the murder of a mystery author and uses a story within a story format.
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- Book Review: Interior Novel
- Book Review: Exterior Novel
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In this nested story, the interior mystery is a traditional mystery modeled after classic Agatha Christie novels. Atticus Pund, a famous detective, is called into a small English village on the behest of a woman whose fiance is a suspect in a murder. And, as is customary in these types of stories, Pund quickly discovers upon arriving at the small v...
I have to give credit to Magpie Murdersfor trying to do something new in a genre that’s known for pumping out nearly indistinguishable novels. I’m glad I gave it a shot. That said, I hate to admit that it’s because of this premise that the book ultimately falls apart. Anthony Horowitz takes his book-within-a-book conceit quite seriously. Both stori...
To be clear, I really liked the interior Agatha Christie-esque storyline. It is well done in a lot of ways. The mystery, when it’s revealed, is set up nicely and there is a good payoff. The characters are well-developed, interesting and feel authentic. I didn’t love how some of the red herrings unraveled (some things a little too unplausible or coi...
Without giving anything away, the book pushes hard at the idea that solving one mystery will help to shed new light on the interior mystery, but in the end, it only does so in an extremely superficial way. It’s hard to explain without revealing the ending (which I definitely would not do in a book review for a mystery novel), but suffice to say tha...
As you may have concluded, I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. As I was reading it, I was engrossed. The payoff for the inner mystery is solid, smart and well-concocted. The outer mystery, though…sigh. It really is kind of uninspired and quite frankly just kind of a mess. Of course, it’s not until you’re nearing the end that you’ll realiz...
Jun 6, 2017 · Magpie Murders, bestselling author Alan Conway’s ninth novel about Greek/German detective Atticus Pünd, kicks off with the funeral of Mary Elizabeth Blakiston, devoted housekeeper to Sir Magnus Pye, who’s been found at the bottom of a steep staircase she’d been vacuuming in Pye Hall, whose every external door was locked from the inside.
Nov 16, 2017 · From Sunday Times bestseller Anthony Horowitz comes Magpie Murders, his deliciously dark take on the cosy crime novel, brought bang- up-to-date with a fiendish modern twist.
