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Magpie Murders de Anthony Horowitz

Magpie Murders

Autor Anthony Horowitz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2017

Ce te faci când un manuscris de ficțiune ascunde indicii despre o crimă reală? Susan Ryeland, editoare de cursă lungă, primește ultimul volum al autorului Alan Conway. Pare un roman polițist clasic, plasat într-un sat englezesc liniștit. Dar, pe măsură ce Susan parcurge ancheta detectivului Atticus Pünd la Pye Hall, descoperă ceva alarmant. Dincolo de pagini se ascunde o poveste despre lăcomie, ambiție și ură care transcende ficțiunea. Descoperim aici un mecanism narativ ingenios: o carte în interiorul altei cărți. Tensiunea crește cu fiecare capitol citit de Susan. Ritmul este alert. Suspansul devine personal. În tradiția lui Agatha Christie, acest roman reimaginează structura clasică „whodunit” prin prisma meta-ficțiunii moderne. Anthony Horowitz demonstrează o stăpânire absolută a genului, rafinată prin lucrări anterioare precum Moriarty sau Trigger Mortis. Dacă în The House of Silk autorul explora rigoarea canonului sherlockian, aici își permite să deconstruiască regulile genului polițist sub ochii noștri. Suntem de părere că această lucrare este o demonstrație de virtuozitate tehnică. Cititorul nu este doar un observator, ci devine detectivul care trebuie să separe realitatea de manuscris. Comparația cu Murder of Magpies de Judith Flanders este inevitabilă prin prisma mediului editorial descris, însă Horowitz plasează miza într-o zonă mult mai întunecată și mai cerebrală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062670977
ISBN-10: 0062670972
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman pasionaților de puzzle-uri literare și admiratorilor epocii de aur a ficțiunii polițiste. Câștigați o experiență de lectură stratificată, primind practic două mistere într-un singur volum. Este alegerea perfectă pentru cei care vor să vadă cum un maestru contemporan precum Anthony Horowitz omagiază și, în același timp, provoacă moștenirea lăsată de Agatha Christie.

Despre autor

Anthony Horowitz este unul dintre cei mai prolifici și de succes scriitori britanici contemporani, decorat cu OBE pentru servicii aduse literaturii. Specialist în mister și suspans, Horowitz a fost ales de moștenitorii lui Ian Fleming și Arthur Conan Doyle pentru a continua seriile James Bond și Sherlock Holmes. Este creatorul celebrelor seriale TV „Midsomer Murders” și „Foyle's War”. Opera sa pentru adulți include seria Susan Ryeland și seria Hawthorne, în timp ce în literatura pentru tineret este celebru pentru seria Alex Rider.

Descriere scurtă

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A New York Times Bestseller | #1 Indie Next Pick | NPR Best Book of 2017 | Amazon Best Book of 2017 | Washington Post Best Book of 2017 | Esquire Best Book of 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.
Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.

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Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Rye-land, has worked with him for years and she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan’s traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It’s proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
When Susan receives Alan’s latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan reads, the more she realizes that there’s another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript—one of ruthless ambition, jealousy and greed—and that soon it will lead to murder.
Masterful, clever, and ruthlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage crime fiction.

Recenzii

“Each of the narratives in Magpie Murders is engaging and fluid, each with its own charm, though Horowitz’s joyful act of Christie ventriloquism is, in particular, spectacularly impressive.” — Washington Post
“Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders is catnip for classic mystery lovers… With its elegant yet playful plotting, Magpie Murders is the thinking mystery fan’s ideal summer thriller.” — Time Magazine
“An ingenious funhouse mirror of a novel sets a vintage ‘cozy’ mystery inside a modern frame.” — Wall Street Journal
“Brilliant. Really, really brilliant. I loved it.” — Sophie Hannah, author of The Monogram Murders
“An extravagant circus of a novel, part high-wire act, part funhouse mirror. Intricate, bold, stone-cold clever— both comfortably old-fashioned and thrillingly new.” — A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
“Doubly Devilish.” — People
“Horowitz..has devised an ingenious whodunit within a whodunit, a metamystery with Agatha Christie roots.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“A treat for fans of golden age mysteries…. [A] tour de force …. Horowitz throws in several wicked twists…. Highly satisfying.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Magpie Murders is an ingenious, twisting tribute to the sleepy English countryside murder and will thoroughly entertain readers of old fashioned detective thrillers.” — New York Journal of Books
“Fans who still mourn the passing of Agatha Christie…will welcome this wildly inventive homage…as the most fiendishly clever puzzle—make that two puzzles—of the year.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“A perfect summer read from the author of Moriarty.” — AARP Magazine
“Magpie Murders [is] a fiendishly clever literary puzzle.” — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“There’s much to enjoy in Anthony Horowitz’s spry, sardonic Magpie Murders.” — Guardian
“An ingenious novel-within-a-novel . . . part crime novel, part pastiche, this magnificent piece of crime fiction plays with the genre while also taking it seriously.” — Sunday Times
“Superbly written, with great suspects, a perfect period feel, and a cracking reveal at the end.” — The Spectator
“Anthony Horowitz has devised a fiendish mystery within a mystery that will have you hooked from page one. We loved this Agatha Christie-esque crime novel.” — Good Housekeeping (UK)
“A stylish, multi-layered thriller—playful, ingenious and wonderfully entertaining.” — Sunday Mirror
“A compendium of dark delights. . . . A brilliant pastiche of the English village mystery and a hugely enjoyable tale of avarice and skullduggery in the world of publishing.” — Irish Times
“This can only be described as incredibly clever—but what else would you expect from Horowitz?” — The Herald (Glasgow)
“Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers.”  — Janet Maslin, New York Times

Notă biografică

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestselling Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language; he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novel Trigger Mortis features original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel, Moriarty, is a reader favorite; and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle's War on PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE.

Descriere

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The first Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland mystery from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, and inspiration for the major hit BBC series MAGPIE MURDERS.

Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s.

But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.

From the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Now available to preorder: MARBLE HALL MURDERS, the fiendishly brilliant follow-up to Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders

Praise for Magpie Murders - the gripping Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller:

'Ingenious' Sunday Times
'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail
'A stylish thriller' Sunday Mirror
'A cunning reinvention of the thriller' Mail on Sunday