Horowitz is a very clever writer and this is a clever book. It features a pastiche of Horowitz himself as Dr Watson to Hawthorne’s Sherlock Holmes. Horowitz chronicles Holmes’ brilliance as a detective.
In this one (I think part of a series) they attend a literary festival in Alderney to publicise one of their books. A whole gang of other (fictional) writers attend the festival, and following a fairly gruesome murder, it moves from Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie territory – numerous suspects all with secrets locked on an island.
Extremely cleverly plotted and with an unguessable ending.
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