Magpie Murders Author Surname:Horowitz

Magpie Murders Author Surname:HorowitzWhen editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway. But Conway's latest

With the police determined to bark up the wrong tree

she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled

But at 50+ years of age in the Depression era and with no savings

A manuscript confiscated by the secret police in the seventies holds devastating secrets about the Falcks' activities during the war

Something that makes them feel alive

A man is accused of murdering his wife - and all the evidence points to his guilt

While Jessica wonders how best to approach Aileen

starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it

where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca

who combined natural flair with his experience in the police to truly authentic effect

engineering

and a beautiful young wife