The reader gets absorbed in the Pünd mystery, which takes up over half of this lengthy book, so it’s dismaying when the story ends without a resolution. The mysteries are well plotted and interesting. He manages to memorably describe each character so you don’t get lost as to who is who. Horowitz is a witty and entertaining writer. I was very entertained by this beginning and easily slipped into the rest of the book. It looked exactly like the beginning of any book, with a title page and a list of the author’s previous Atticus Pünd titles.
This time, I resolved to read the introduction, and realized it was part of the story and set up the mystery within a mystery. I skipped the author’s introduction, a bad habit of mine, and wasn’t that interested a few pages in. I tried to read Magpie Murders once before, but wasn’t hooked. The reader is then taken back to the editor’s point of view as she tries to locate the end of the book and untangle author Conway’s life. It just cuts off completely just as Pünd reveals the murderer. The mystery is absorbing and clever, with well-drawn characters, and I was deep into the story when it abruptly ended. The reader plunges into Conway’s story, which revolves around a handful of murders and features a large cast of suspects not unlike those found in Agatha Christie’s books. It starts with an editor reading Alan Conway’s Magpie Murders, featuring Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd. Magpie Murders is a mystery within a mystery. I can’t begin to describe how much I loved Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders.
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