Conway’s editor, Susan Ryeland, is Horowitz’s narrator as she settles down to read her author’s latest: “You can’t beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn’t seen it from the start. the BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary on each side of the. Blakiston’s death is a story within a story, the work of a crime novelist, one Alan Conway, whose vintage tales of murders solved by the wonderfully umlauted German detective Atticus Pünd regularly top the bestseller lists. IQ by Joe Ide review Sherlock Holmes in South Central Los. In Magpie Murders, Horowitz tries something a little different: he pastiches the cosy country murder stories of Agatha Christie, setting his whodunnit in the sleepy 1950s English village of Saxby-on-Avon, where the widely disliked Mary Blakiston has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in Pye Hall, the grand house where she worked as a housekeeper.Įxcept he doesn’t really do this at all. Citing that movie as primarily responsible for popularizing this phrase is problematic, though, as the New York Times noted in its review of the film that: In the final scene Dr. Sherlock realizes that she’s trapped in the fire inside his home, so he busts through a door in hopes of rescuing her. He’s taken on Arthur Conan Doyle in The House of Silk. Anthony Horowitz has ventriloquised Ian Fleming in Trigger Mortis.
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