However, she has reason to believe that he himself may have been murdered and sets out to discover Whodunnit. Like Conway's other books, it is a pastiche of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels, featuring quirky detective Atticus Pünd as he solves a murder in a sleepy English countryside village where nothing is as it seems.īut as Susan nears the end of the book, she finds that the final chapter is missing and Conway himself has died under mysterious circumstances. The plot concerns a London-based editor named Susan Ryeland who is given the manuscript of best-selling mystery writer Alan Conway's latest novel, Magpie Murders. A work of Meta Fiction, it is actually two Fair-Play Whodunnits in one. Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by Anthony Horowitz.
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