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Mar 2018
3:43pm, 6 Mar 2018
33,403 posts
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McGoohan
Margaret 'Maggie' Pye is a hardworking lawyer by day, but by night she is The Magpie, costumed heroine beloved by all. She helps the helpless, defends the defenceless and gives hope to the hopeless. But now she faces her greatest challenge: someone around Owl City is committing a series of murders and framing Maggie for them! Can she foil this dastardly plan? Will her handsome client, Robin Redbreast be proved innocent? And what is the secret of the mysterious Mr Albatross?
Now read on plucky reader, read on...
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Mar 2018
3:43pm, 6 Mar 2018
33,404 posts
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McGoohan
You might also want to discuss 'Magpie Murders' by Anthony Horowitz as well...
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Mar 2018
9:58am, 7 Mar 2018
8,398 posts
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Little Nemo
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Mar 2018
10:38pm, 11 Mar 2018
6,278 posts
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Serendippily
Not my cup of tea - but of a clunky read. Book within a book was a nice conceit but contrived and I struggled to care much about the second story for a while
If it had been trimmed by a quarter and just more enjoyable to read I’d have liked it more - always a problem writing about disenchanted writers I think it just felt quite cold
I got into it every now and then but I was glad it’s over and it wasn’t the snuggly easy read I’d been hoping for
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Mar 2018
3:45pm, 18 Mar 2018
2,423 posts
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westmoors
I really enjoyed this. I loved the book within a book especially when it didn't finish!
I've not read many whodunnits so perhaps this is why I enjoyed it -- I had nothing to really compare it to. Unlike dipps, I found I didn't want to put it down.
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Mar 2018
8:43pm, 19 Mar 2018
15,132 posts
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Columba
posting first, reading back after...
Very clever story, complex interweaving of two stories in fact. But it really isn't "my" genre, to the extent that I was relieved to have finished it. Sorry, that's all I've got to say!
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Mar 2018
8:52pm, 19 Mar 2018
15,133 posts
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Columba
Seren's reminded me about the "disenchanted writer" bit, - that was something I did find interesting. I already knew that Conan Doyle had grown to hate Sherlock Holmes, and tried to kill him off but was persuaded (by his public? By his publisher?) to resurrect him. I didn't realise so many other Whodunnit authors had become similarly fed-up with their detectives. Must be like being type-cast for an actor, I suppose; they find they've knitted themselves a strait-jacket.
And somewhere in the book (can't put my finger on it now) someone points out that there are far more fictitious murders than real ones, and that they never occur like the ones in whodunnits.
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Mar 2018
9:44pm, 19 Mar 2018
9,185 posts
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Badger
Det Sup Locke, when he meets Susan for coffee. Quite liked that bit.
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Mar 2018
12:40am, 20 Mar 2018
13,875 posts
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MissChappo
I  Anthony Horowitz for the Alex Rider books but I must say I didn't find this terribly gripping.
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Mar 2018
2:20pm, 20 Mar 2018
15,138 posts
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Columba
Thank you Badger, so it was. Have now returned the book to the library.
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