The word is murder / Anthony Horowitz.
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062676801
- ISBN: 0062676806
- Physical Description: 390 pages, 26 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Harper Perennial paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes an excerpt from the author's The sentence is death. |
Target Audience Note: | 740L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 15 502320. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Deception > Fiction. Authors > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F HOR 2019 (Text) | 0002205404060 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
The Word Is Murder : A Novel
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Summary
The Word Is Murder : A Novel
"One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It's also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?" -- Wall Street Journal New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes. A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. 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. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz--a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories--suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes that he's at the center of a story he can't control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.