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A review by gayatriii
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
4.0
Ah, I’d forgotten how delicious a good, old school, classic whodunit can be. How richly descriptive, how eloquent, and how twisty turnzy (that’s a word, surely?) it can be. Magpie Murders is a novel set within a novel. I loved the novel in the novel a little bit more than the novel itself, know what I mean?
Atticus Pund is a famous investigator created by Alan Conway. Alan finishes his latest, most anticipated book and hands it to his publisher and then goes home and jumps off a tower and dies. The book as it turns out, is missing the last chapter. So, we have a whodunit that does not reveal who’s done it. How did he die? Why did he die? Where’s the missing chapter? Did he really off himself? That’s 1 part.
The 2nd story is in the pages of that incomplete book. A housekeeper slips, falls down the stairs and breaks her neck. Next, her employer is decapitated. And we have Atticus Pund become very interested in this possibly double-murder.
This book has excellent pace. Great, nostalgic, Agatha Christie-esque writing, and a satisfying mystery at the centre of it all.
Atticus Pund is a famous investigator created by Alan Conway. Alan finishes his latest, most anticipated book and hands it to his publisher and then goes home and jumps off a tower and dies. The book as it turns out, is missing the last chapter. So, we have a whodunit that does not reveal who’s done it. How did he die? Why did he die? Where’s the missing chapter? Did he really off himself? That’s 1 part.
The 2nd story is in the pages of that incomplete book. A housekeeper slips, falls down the stairs and breaks her neck. Next, her employer is decapitated. And we have Atticus Pund become very interested in this possibly double-murder.
This book has excellent pace. Great, nostalgic, Agatha Christie-esque writing, and a satisfying mystery at the centre of it all.