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SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.

Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.

Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

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"The Word Is Murder is an intriguing labyrinth of whodunnits and a true page-turner throughout ."--Real Crime Magazine

"Horowitz is undeniably brilliant"--Metro London

"Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Actually, the word is not murder, it's ingenious....a masterful meta-mystery."--Booklist (starred review)

"An ingenious funhouse mirror of a novel sets a vintage 'cozy' mystery inside a modern frame."--Wall Street Journal

"Irresistible ... What can't this supremely versatile writer do?"--USA Today

"The Word Is Murder is full of surprises and suspense...hugely entertaining. It is a special treat for those who want to read crime mysteries."--Washington Book Review

"Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"...the beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic élan as Horowitz blurs the line between fiction and reality... there is no denying the sheer ingenuity of the central notion."--The Financial Times

"...Horowitz succeeds with The Word Is Murder by simultaneously adhering to and defying the rules of a traditional mystery."--Christian Science Monitor
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One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper--the wealthy mother of a famous actor--enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.

Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life--a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.

Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself at the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, tem-peramental, and annoying; but even so, his latest case, with its many twists and turns, proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word Is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

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  • Publication date2018
  • ISBN 10 0062845861
  • ISBN 13 9780062845863
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