5/12/2023 0 Comments Magpie murders novelConway’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. Magpie Murders 9.15pm, BBC One The meta murder-mystery ends this week and for everybody’s sanity we need Susan to find the missing final chapter of murdered author Alan Conway’s novel. 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. In Alan’s latest story, Magpie Murders, Atticus investigates two related deaths in the small town of Saxby-on-Avon. He’s taken on Arthur Conan Doyle in The House of Silk. Anthony Horowitz has ventriloquised Ian Fleming in Trigger Mortis.
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