Robin Osborne and his wife, Henrietta Mary’s son, Robert, and his fiancee, Joy Sanderling Joy’s boss, surgeon Emilia Redwing, and her elderly father antiques dealers Johnny and Gemma Whitehead Magnus’ twin sister, Clarissa and Lady Frances Pye and her inevitable lover, investor Jack Dartford-is most likely to conceal a killer, but she’s still undecided when she comes to the end of the manuscript and realizes the last chapter is missing. Conway's editor, Susan Ryeland, does her methodical best to figure out which of many guilty secrets Conway has provided the suspects in Saxby-on-Avon-Rev. Her demise has all the signs of an accident until Sir Magnus himself follows her in death, beheaded with a sword customarily displayed with a full suit of armor in Pye Hall. Magpie Murders, bestselling author Alan Conway’s ninth novel about Greek/German detective Atticus Pünd, kicks off with the funeral of Mary Elizabeth Blakiston, devoted housekeeper to Sir Magnus Pye, who’s been found at the bottom of a steep staircase she’d been vacuuming in Pye Hall, whose every external door was locked from the inside. A preternaturally brainy novel within a novel that’s both a pastiche and a deconstruction of golden-age whodunits.
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