Magpie Murders

One sentence synopsis... A mystery within a mystery, a book editor finds herself solving a murder with clues left in the manuscript of one of her author's detective novels.

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Read it if you like... Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, pre-forensic detective work. Or just if you enjoy creative narrative devices or getting two books for the price of one.

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Dream casting... the book already casts Ben Kingsley as the fictional detective from the manuscript Atticus Pund but in addition to that I'd cast Michael Emmerson as the unlikeable author Alan Conway.