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The Word Is Murder ANTHONY HOROWITZ

The Word Is Murder

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

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Publication: Century, 2017, London

First edition. Signed by the author. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. It is just after 11 am on a bright spring morning, and Diana Cowper is going into a funeral parlor to organize her own service. Six hours later she is strangled to death with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognize her killer? Are the two events even related? Enter Daniel Hawthorne, a detective with a genius for solving crimes and an ability to hold his secrets very close. With him is his writing partner, Anthony Horowitz, who is to record all the events in order to write a book when the murderer is unmasked. Hawthorne is concerned that the proper title will be chosen Together they will set out to solve this most puzzling of mysteries.The Word is Murder is the first in a series of crime novels starring Detective Daniel Hawthorne.

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