![]() As the villagers prepared to lay Mary Blakiston, the housekeeper at Pye Hall to rest, there was a feeling of unease about her death. There had been an accidental death in the small English village of Saxon-on-Avon. Horowitz next includes the first six chapters of the novel Magpie Murders, written by Conway. Speaking from the point in time after she finished the book, she gives the reader a warning that the book changed her life. She tells how she settled in to read the manuscript from Conway’s final Pünd novel with the anticipation of enjoying a good book. This novel is a frame story in which Susan addresses her reader in an introduction. When Cloverleaf Books Editor Susan Ryeland discovered that the final chapter to this novel was missing she began looking for it only to realize later that she had begun a journey that would change her entire life. This murder story within a murder story includes the text of Magpie Murders, the final novel written by fictional author Alan Conway. ![]() Harper, June 6, 2017.Ī fatal accident, a gruesome murder, a drowning, a questionable suicide, and missing chapters from a manuscript are all connected in Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. ![]() NOTE: The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Horowitz, Anthony. ![]()
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