Marble Hall Murders
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:10th Apr '25
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9781804943007)
'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders'Express
Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.
She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.
The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.
Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.
It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
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Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . .
'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley
'Ingenious' Sunday Times
'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail
A masterclass in mystery writing. * Ragnar Jonasson *
Horowitz pushes back the boundaries of ‘plot structure’ – he creates a book within a book where the narrative and the characters of each one are cleverly mirrored. He’s a genius * Terry Deary *
Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read and we are all in for a real treat * Ryan Tubridy *
Diabolically clever . . . . Horowitz’s multilevel romp . . . serves up an elegant plot while lampooning writers, publishers, murderers, rich people and golden-age mystery stories. It’s a cliché to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but it’s true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as you’ll read all year. * New York Times *
Anthony Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner * Andrew Marr *
Glorious fun * The Daily Telegraph *
Plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders * Daily Express *
Horowitz offers readers another page-turner of a puzzle, once again cleverly told as a story within a story * Washington Post *
The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined. * Financial Times *
A deliciously witty, clever, and hefty mystery * Library Journal Starred Review *
ISBN: 9781529904345
Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 49mm
Weight: 840g
592 pages