Author：Anthony Horowitz

Paperback: 560 pages

Publisher: Orion (16 Nov. 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1409158381

ISBN-13: 978-1409158387

Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 3.5 x 19.9 cm

一次对侦探小说的真正颠覆；一场阿加莎·克里斯蒂式的谋杀盛宴；

一首神秘童谣，幻化成一曲夺命交响；

两个互为镜像的平行世界，衍生出双倍的邪恶；

是书中混乱的字符跃进了现实？还是现实早已写好宿命的剧本？

当编辑苏珊·赖兰拿到艾伦·康威最新作品的初稿时，她怎么也不会想到这本小说不同于他的其他任何作品。在和这位犯罪小说畅销书作家共事多年之后，她对他笔下的侦探阿提库斯·庞德了如指掌。庞德侦破了许多围绕英国村庄的谜案。意在向经典英国侦探小说女王阿加莎·克里斯蒂和多萝西·赛耶斯致敬，康威的传统写作模式获得了巨大成功；而苏珊为了保住工作，必须继续忍受他恼人的行为举止。

在康威的新作中，阿提库斯·庞德来到派伊府邸——一座乡村内的庄园调查一桩谋杀案。是的，其中有死尸和许多各怀鬼胎的嫌疑人。然而随着阅读的深入，苏珊越来越确信，在这本稿件的背后隐藏着另一个故事：一个充斥着嫉妒、贪婪、冷酷的野心和谋杀的真实故事……

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.

Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she's convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.

A relentlessly fast-paced and entertaining read - SUNDAY TIMES

Is there nothing Anthony Horowitz touches that doesn't turn to gold? - DAILY EXPRESS

'Thrilling and compelling, with a stunning twist . . . the finest crime novel of the year' - DAILY MAIL

...difficult to put down and Horowitz fans will thoroughly enjoy a cracking good read. - DAILY EXPRESS

A cunning re-invention of the thriller formula. - MAIL ON SUNDAY

Horowitz is a superb pasticheur. - GUARDIAN

Thrilling and compelling, with a stunning twist . . . the finest crime novel of the year - DAILY MAIL

Magpie Murders is a compendium of dark delights - IRISH TIMES

Although at first glance Horowitz's latest offering appears to be a classic whodunit novel, it will almost certainly prove to be unlike anything you've ever read before, and will have you mulling over its various intrigues in between sittings. - SCOTSMAN

Thrilling and compelling, with a stunning twist ... the finest crime novel of the year - DAILY MAIL

安东尼·赫洛维兹（Anthony Horowitz） 

柯南道尔产权会认证的续写福尔摩斯之人。

英国非常多产和成功的作家之一。安东尼天赋异禀，他忙于写作书籍、电视剧、电影、戏剧以及新闻杂志。

安东尼到目前已经写了35本书，其中包括畅销小说《少年007系列》（Alex Rider），这本书后来被改编成电影并与2006年上映。《少年007系列》（Alex Rider）预计已经在全球发售了1千3百万册。并且安东尼的青少年和成年小说也很受青睐。他被柯南道尔委任写一本新的关于夏洛克福尔摩斯（Sherlock Holmes）小说。《丝之屋》（The House of Silk）于2011年11月出版，之后出版了第二部《莫里亚蒂的算计》，这两部小说在国际范围内普遍受到好评。