Marble Hall Murders

Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek Island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life in England. She is freelancing for Causton Books, where she is asked to work on a ''continuation'' novel , Pund''s Last Case , by a young author, Eliot Crace. Susan is surprised: Eliot Crace is the grandson of one of the most well known children''s authors ever, Marian Crace. Think Enid Blyton, then double her sales. Marian Crace died some 15 years previously and Eliot is sure she was poisoned. Rather doubtfully, Susan starts to read the opening chapters, finding to her relief that Pund''s Last Case is actually pretty good. Set in the South of France, it revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont who, though mortally ill, is poisoned - perhaps by a member of her own family. But why? And who did it? It soon becomes clear to Susan that the clues to who was responsible for the death of Eliot''s grandmother, Marian Crace, are hidden from view in this Atticus Pund mystery. Eliot''s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic as his alcohol and gambling addictions increase. But when he is killed in a hit and run accident, Susan realises that she is suspected of his murder. Three mysterious deaths and a group of people with multiple motives for murder: Susan realises that if she doesn''t solve the mystery in Pund''s Last Case , her death may well be next ...

Auteur

Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.

He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective's hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.

His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story...

Texte du rabat

Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third. The new 'continuation' novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children's author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam's killer inside his book, Susan knows she's in trouble once again. As Susan works on Pünd's Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself. It seems that someone in Eliot's family doesn't want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it. Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . . 'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley'Ingenious' Sunday Times'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail