![]() ![]() ![]() Just when Pűnd is ready to reveal whodunnit, the manuscript ends. And much to her surprise, and mine, the final pages are missing. Conway’s Magpie Murders turns out to be a manuscript inside the pages of Horowitz’s novel, Magpie Murders.Īlongside the reader, Conway’s editor Susan Ryeland is reading, too. Deliciously British, indeed, when a second sudden death occurs in the same Saxby-on-Avon manor house, and Atticus Pűnd is called upon to assist the police with their investigations. Ostensibly, Magpie Murders is the ninth in a fictional series written by Alan Conway and featuring Atticus Pund, who acts as if he had just stepped out of a novel by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers or P. Spying the birds, one of the mourners recalls an old nursery rhyme: “Seven for a secret,/ Never to be told.” And so multiple secrets begin to unfold. The novel opens with a funeral witnessed by seven magpies. ![]() The Magpie Murders is Deliciously British! Anthony Horowitz’s mystery is set in a circumscribed Somerset village populated by a quarrelsome set of eccentric miscreants. ![]()
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