Marble Hall Murders
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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

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14 Oct 2025
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11 Mar 2025
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10 Apr 2025
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10 Apr 2025
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10 May 2025
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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.

Also by Anthony Horowitz

Moonflower Murders
The Word Is Murder
Close to Death
The Twist of a Knife
The Sentence is Death
With a Mind to Kill
A Line to Kill
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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