New York Times \;bestselling author of \; Magpie Murders \;and \;Moriarty\, Anthony Horowitz has yet again b rilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel\, this time writing a fictio nal version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.
New York Times \;bestselling author of \;
Magpie Murders \;and \;Moriarty\, Anthony Horowitz has yet again b
rilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel\, this time writing a fictio
nal version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.
One bright spring morning in London\, Diana Cowper &ndash\; the wealth y mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.
\nSix hours later she is found dead\, strangled wi th a curtain cord in her own home.
\nEnter disgraced police detectiv e Daniel Hawthorne\, a brilliant\, eccentric investigator who&rsquo\;s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost wri ter to document his life\; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horo witz.
\nDrawn in against his will\, Horowitz soon finds himself a th e center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque\, temperamenta l and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partners hip. At the same time\, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding som e dark secrets of his own.
\nA masterful and tricky mystery that spr ings many surprises\, \;The Word is Murder \;is Anthony Horowitz a t his very best.
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