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Nov 06, 2018IndyPL_SteveB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If you like British mystery novels, do not start this book until you have finished your appointments, paid your bills, sent away any visitors, and found a very comfortable place to sit. You won’t be doing anything else for a while – maybe not *noticing* anything else. Best-selling crime writer Alan Conway has made millions with his Agatha Christie-inspired mystery series, featuring private detective and Holocaust survivor Atticus Pünd. He has just sent his publisher the typescript of the 9th book (“Magpie Murders”) in the series and the publisher has made a copy for Conway’s editor, Susan Ryeland. Susan settles down for the weekend to read it. So do we. Horowitz gives us the full text of Conway’s English village murder mystery and we become wrapped up in it. But after 90% of the plot, we suddenly – along with editor Susan – discover that the end of the book is missing. Then Susan and her boss discover that author Conway has either committed suicide or has been murdered himself. Now Susan becomes the detective in order to solve TWO mysteries, while author Horowitz keeps us readers completely off balance. This is one impressive and entertaining mystery.