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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Word Is Murder: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery) (edizione 2018)di Anthony Horowitz (Autor)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I thought this was well-plotted and an engaging read, but I don't see what the real-life author as characters actually brings to the story. There is so much name dropping and so many references to contemporary TV programmes, books etc, some of which are presumably made-up, and I found that a distraction. I do like the character of Hawthorne though, despite the narrator's obsession with his supposed homophobia. ( ) When author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz is approached by a police consultant to collaborate on a true crime account of a murder investigation, Horowitz’s curiosity overcomes his initial reluctance. Just hours before the murder, the victim, mother of a famous actor, had visited a funeral home where she planned and paid for her funeral. Did she suspect that someone wanted her to die? Daniel Hawthorne, the former police officer turned private detective, gets under Horowitz’s skin, and to be fair, most people find Hawthorne highly annoying. But Hawthorne is brilliant, and the unlikely pair make a 21st century Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The line between fact and fiction blurs in this novel. Horowitz drops tidbits throughout on his real life projects, particularly Foyle’s War. Arthur Conan Doyle did it first with his fictional Dr. Watson as the first-person narrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Horowitz gives it a new twist by inserting himself into the story. I think it’s fun. YMMV. Kuna ma lugesin enne seda "Harakamõrvasid", siis ei saa 5 anda, aga ikka väga hea raamat. Tagantjärele mulle kohutavalt meeldib lähenemine - see, et autor on ise oma raamatus tegelane, ja see, kuidas reaalsus ja fiktsioon on mõnusalt sassi keeratud, enam ei saa aru, kust jookseb piir, kas see kõik oligi päriselt või kas üldse midagi oli päriselt. :D Good but not great mystery told from the POV of the author tasked with writing the “true crime” book about the case. The story was interesting but the whole thing had a weird vibe — almost stilted note taking and not flowing storytelling. I think that was a deliberate choice and I’m not sure it was a good one. I liked the Magpie Murders more. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Anthony Horowitz has yet again reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes. One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper -- the wealthy mother of a famous actor -- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own. A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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