Part of the fun of the book was trying to guess what actual famous person or persons Horowitz had in mind when he created various characters. SIMON: So do you drift to sleep thinking of ways to dispatch of people? SIMON: Let me ask you about Diana Cowper. I closed the book actually wishing Hawthorne was a real person, or at the very least a fictional character to be used in recurring stories." In the ”The Word is Murder,” Horowitz reimagines a Holmes and Watson mystery, with a fictionalized version of Horowitz as Watson. HOROWITZ: Well, my mother spent an awful lot of time looking for this money. The Word is Murder is eccentric and totally brilliant – like reading an Agatha Christie novel if Agatha Christie placed herself at the centre of the action and engaged with Sherlock Holmes. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Normally when a book refuses to connect with me early on, I stop reading, but I persevered thinking at some point it would work out. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Author Horowitz is the 1st person narrator. #3, continued ( A True Story, Murder Mystery).

The author had to have had a ball when writing this. SIMON: Why are villains often more fascinating to us than heroes? WRONG NUMBER (And Where It Led Me!) become a member today. Marcia Clark's new ABC show 'The Fix' bears some striking similarities to her experience as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This was such a highly original and clever read, I honestly can’t recall a book that I’ve read that even comes close to it, it blurs the lines between fact and fiction in the coolest way. The Word is Murder primarily stands out from the mystery genre crowd because of its ingenious meta style. I mean, when I was approached by one of my editors to do a new series of murder mysteries, and I hope this is the first of many, I was looking for a way to sort of turn the whole formula - the format upside down. I finished this a while ago, but I have been avoiding commenting on it until now. Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. And yet, at the same time, I just don't get on with him. Former Detective Inspector Hawthorne has approached Anthony Horowitz- yes, the real author is a character in the story- to write a book about him. She was in her sixties with a pleasant, round face. I’ve read novels where authors inserted themselves as characters in their books, but the manner in which Horowitz does so. Genres & Themes | Why this bottle? All rights reserved. Horowitz, is the none too bright writer who becomes the Watson for ex-detective Hawthorne's Sherlock Holmes. Horowitz is working on a television series when the book begins, and Hawthorne’s reappearance is cleverly introduced – his arrival causing unintentional mayhem and annoyance.

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