Susan Ryeland (Magpie Murders) · Book 1
Magpie Murders
- Published
- 6 October 2016
- Pages
- 236
- ISBN-13
- 9780062670977
- Type
- novel
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About this book
Magpie Murders introduced the series in October 2016 at 236 pages, launching Anthony Horowitz's nesting-doll structure in which book editor Susan Ryeland investigates a real murder mirroring a manuscript she's editing -- a complete Atticus Pund whodunit folded inside her own.
Its place in Susan Ryeland (Magpie Murders)
Magpie Murders is book 1 in the Susan Ryeland (Magpie Murders) series. It is followed by Moonflower Murders. See the full Susan Ryeland (Magpie Murders) reading order.
The Susan Ryeland series is Anthony Horowitz's tribute to golden-age British detective fiction, built on a nesting-doll structure: each novel follows book editor Susan Ryeland investigating a real murder that eerily mirrors the plot of a manuscript she's editing -- a complete, fully-plotted whodunit-within-the-whodunit starring fictional 1950s detective Atticus Pund. Readers effectively get two mysteries per book, Susan's contemporary investigation and Pund's period one, with clues in the manuscript sometimes…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062670977