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  • Published: 14 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804943007
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $22.99
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Marble Hall Murders





From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pund mystery to solve a murder.

Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.

She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.

The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.

Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.

As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she finds more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target.

Someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
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Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . .

'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley
'Ingenious' Sunday Times
'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail

  • Published: 14 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804943007
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Anthony Horowitz

Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; two James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day; three Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and the forthcoming A Line To Kill, and the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.

He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. In January 2014 he was awarded an OBE for his services to literature.

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Praise for Marble Hall Murders

Plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders

Daily Express

A masterclass in mystery writing.

Ragnar Jonasson

The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined.

Financial Times

Glorious fun

The Daily Telegraph

Fans will love this installment

Best Magazine

A treat

Sainsburys Magazine

Horowitz is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie. Fans will clamor for the sequel

Publishers Weekly Starred Review

A deliciously witty, clever, and hefty mystery

Library Journal Starred Review

The novel-within-a-novel format works superbly

Town and Country

Horowitz's most extended and intricately plotted [whodunit] yet

Kirkus Reviews

Anthony Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner

Andrew Marr

Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read and we are all in for a real treat

Ryan Tubridy

Horowitz offers readers another page-turner of a puzzle, once again cleverly told as a story within a story

Washington Post

A multilayered metafictional mystery filled with twists, anagrams, and clever clues . . . thoroughly entertaining

AudioFile

His most satisfying yet’

Air Mail

Dazzling . . . Readers looking for a cozy that gives them something to really chew on will enjoy this lengthy mystery, and fans of Susan Ryeland will find this a satisfying installment in the series

BookPage, Starred Review

Novels within novels are an Anthony Horowitz trademark . . . a gifted mimic, [Horowitz] switches effortlessly between Susan's cynical voice and a convincing Agatha Christie-style pastiche

The Times

If you've read Horowitz's Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders - the basis for the PBS mystery series - you know how wonderful he is at creating fun, twisty mysteries with layered plots: books within books.

AARP

A smooth, rich mystery that will entertain on every one of its 580 pages. Settle in for a cleverly constructed plot.

NY Journal of Books

Diabolically clever . . . . Horowitz’s multilevel romp . . . serves up an elegant plot while lampooning writers, publishers, murderers, rich people and golden-age mystery stories. It’s a cliché to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but it’s true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as you’ll read all year.

New York Times

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary fictional detective Atticus Pünd . . . A talented fellow, our Anthony Horowitz. A name for fans of intelligent mystery fiction on page or screen to be on the lookout for. His work doesn’t disappoint’

American Spectator

If traditional golden age style mystery is your jam, these books are absolute perfection . . . with this strong installment, Horowitz proves once again that these smart, gorgeously written and compelling books remain some of the very best crime novels being written

Deadly Pleasures Magazine

Marble Hall Murders is metafiction with a vengeance. It is a contemporary murder mystery in the style of the best of Agatha Christie. In the hands of a writer with the sly genius of Anthony Horowitz — who is capable of winking at us even as he scares us mightily — Marble Hall Murders is, quite simply, as good as it gets

Anniston Star

Marble Hall Murders is a masterpiece and more than a worthy successor to the prior installments of the series. The complex construction of Horowitz’s mysteries is so brilliant that it feels like he is channeling Agatha Christie herself, and this latest entry is a perfect example of this. This mystery within a mystery is like a fictional Russian doll that will keep readers engaged and guessing on multiple levels from start to finish

Bookreporter.com
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