Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2016)
Having successfully ‘done’ Conan-Doyle in ‘The Silk Road’ and ‘Moriarty’ and Ian Fleming in ‘Trigger Mortis’, Horowitz has turned his attention to Agatha Christie with ‘Magpie Murders’.
He uses a book-within-a-book to write both a contemporary murder mystery and one set in a typical Christie village of the 1950’s.
The fictitious Magpie Murders by the fictitious author Alan Conway is a 219 page whodunit manuscript printed in its entirety within the 400 page whodunit Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
In the modern day mystery, author Alan Conway is murdered and his editor Susan Ryeland believes that Conway planted clues to his murderer in the 1950’s mystery. We get to read the Alan Conway manuscript before joining Susan in her attempt to solve the murder.
A very enjoyable book.
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