Magpie Murders: Anthony Horowitz - Brossura

Horowitz, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0062645234 ISBN 13: 9780062645234

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2018

Riassunto

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

A New York Times Bestseller | #1 Indie Next Pick | NPR Best Book of 2017 | Amazon Best Book of 2017 | Washington Post Best Book of 2017 | Esquire Best Book of 2017

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.

Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.

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Recensione:

“Each of the narratives in Magpie Murders is engaging and fluid, each with its own charm, though Horowitz’s joyful act of Christie ventriloquism is, in particular, spectacularly impressive.” (Washington Post)

“Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders is catnip for classic mystery lovers... With its elegant yet playful plotting, Magpie Murders is the thinking mystery fan’s ideal summer thriller.” (Time Magazine)

“An ingenious funhouse mirror of a novel sets a vintage ‘cozy’ mystery inside a modern frame.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Brilliant. Really, really brilliant. I loved it.” (Sophie Hannah, author of The Monogram Murders)

“An extravagant circus of a novel, part high-wire act, part funhouse mirror. Intricate, bold, stone-cold clever— both comfortably old-fashioned and thrillingly new.” (A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window)

“Doubly Devilish.” (People)

“Horowitz..has devised an ingenious whodunit within a whodunit, a metamystery with Agatha Christie roots.” (O, the Oprah Magazine)

“A treat for fans of golden age mysteries.... [A] tour de force .... Horowitz throws in several wicked twists.... Highly satisfying.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Magpie Murders is an ingenious, twisting tribute to the sleepy English countryside murder and will thoroughly entertain readers of old fashioned detective thrillers.” (New York Journal of Books)

“Fans who still mourn the passing of Agatha Christie...will welcome this wildly inventive homage...as the most fiendishly clever puzzle—make that two puzzles—of the year.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred))

L'autore:

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestselling Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language; he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novel Trigger Mortis features original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel, Moriarty, is a reader favorite; and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War on PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062645234
• ISBN 13: 9780062645234
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 495