‘I’ve watched every episode of Poirot and Midsomer Murders on TV. Magpie Murders cleverly places one murder mystery, a traditional cozy-style mystery set in a 1950s English village (also called Magpie Murders), inside of another murder mystery, set in the present day publishing industry. This description encapsulates the idea at the centre of Magpie Murders – about an author who despises the main character of the series of novels that made him famous. In an interview with Sophie Masson, Horowitz describes his latest novel, Magpie Murders as “both a whodunnit and an exploration into whodunnits” and attributes the inspiration for the story to Conan Doyle’s mixed feelings about Sherlock Holmes. Anthony Horowitz is the author of the popular Alex Rider series and has written for film and television, such as Foyle’s War, New Blood and Midsomer Murders.
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