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The Word Is Murder

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The Word Is Murder

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper --- the wealthy mother of a famous actor --- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz

  • Publication Date: May 7, 2019
  • Genres: Fiction, Mystery
  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • ISBN-10: 0062676806
  • ISBN-13: 9780062676801