![]() ![]() ![]() But rumors that her estranged son wished Mary dead lead his fianc%C3%A9e to seek P%C3%BCnd's help. The verdict of accidental death seems warranted in the case of housekeeper and unrepentant busybody Mary Blakiston, who took a fatal fall down a flight of stairs at Pye Hall, since no one else was in the locked manor house at the time. In the text of the manuscript itself (which is accompanied by a bio of Conway and blurbs from real-life authors Ian Rankin and Robert Harris), Poirot-like sleuth Atticus P%C3%BCnd, a German concentration camp survivor who has settled in England, tackles an Agatha Christie%E2%80%93like puzzle in 1955 Saxby-on-Avon. In the prologue, an unnamed editor sets the tone by describing how reading the manuscript of Magpie Murders, the ninth novel in a bestselling mystery series by Alan Conway, cost her her job and many friendships. ![]() Bestseller Horowitz ( The House of Silk) provides a treat for fans of golden age mysteries with this tour de force that both honors and pokes fun at the genre. ![]()
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