What I’m Reading: “Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz

Magpie Murders is a whodunnit, very much in the style of the classic crime writers such as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh. It’s even set in a 1950s English village.

One of the stories, that is.

Because this, you see, is a whodunnit within a whodunnit, with the contemporary story centering on a missing manuscript and an editor’s realisation that a famous crime writer’s suicide may in fact be murder…

In many ways, Magpie Murders is a kind of roman-a-clef, except the key turns—not on the charac...