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The word is murder : a novel / Anthony Horowitz.

ISBN: 9781443455480 (paperback)
Physical Description: 390 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2018.
Copyright: &copy;2017

Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- (author.).

Summary:

A woman crosses a London street and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as police detective Daniel Hawthorne can be, novelist Anthony Horowitz suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes he's at the centre of a story he can't control - and that his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.

A fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues. A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11am on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material.