Inhalt: Ein elegantes Haus am Rande von Hampstead Heath. Ein toter Scheidungsanwalt. Eine rätselhafte Botschaft in grüner Farbe. Eine unglaublich teure Weinflasche als Tatwaffe ? Zweifellos ein Fall für Daniel Hawthorne, Ex-Polizist und Privatdetektiv ? und Scotland Yard immer einen Schritt voraus. Als der smarte Prominentenanwalt Richard Pryce tot in seinem Haus gefunden wird, erschlagen mit einer Flasche 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild im Wert von 2000 £, scheint schnell klar, wer es war: Nur wenige Tage zuvor hat die berühmte feministische Autorin Akira Anno ihm genau diesen Tod angedroht. Aber ist es wirklich so einfach? Als ein weiterer Toter gefunden wird, muss Hawthorne, gemeinsam mit seinem Assistenten und Stichwortgeber Anthony Horowitz, tief in die Vergangenheit der Opfer eintauchen, um die Lösung des Rätsels zu finden. Schlagworte: F Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete, FF Kriminalromane und Mystery Umfang: 347 S. ISBN: 978-3-458-76706-0
Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . "
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise.
Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man's many, many enemies did the deed?
Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who's really getting rather good at this murder investigation business.
But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death . . .
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.
"I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he's splitting and their deal is over.
The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind.
His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London's West End. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night.
The play is panned by the critics. In particular, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby gives it a savage review, focusing particularly on the writing. The next day, Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony, and has his fingerprints all over it.
Anthony is arrested by an old enemy . . . Detective Inspector Cara Grunshaw. She still carries a grudge from her failure to solve the case described in the second Hawthorne adventure, The Sentence is Death, and blames Anthony. Now she's out for revenge.
Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby's murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him.
"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.
Inhalt: Als Daniel Hawthorne, Ex-Polizist und Privatdetektiv, und sein 'Assistent' Anthony Horowitz zu einem Literaturfestival auf die beschauliche Kanalinsel Alderney eingeladen werden, rechnen die beiden im Traum nicht damit, Hals über Kopf in eine Mordermittlung verwickelt zu werden. Aber die exklusive Runde, die sich hier versammelt hat - ein Kinderbuchautor, eine französische Lyrikerin, ein Fernsehkoch, eine blinde Wahrsagerin und ein Historiker -, macht den beiden einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und drumherum tummeln sich zudem die Bewohner der Insel, die wegen einer geplanten Stromtrasse heillos zerstritten sind. Und prompt wird der Mäzen des Festivals brutal ermordet, und Hawthorne und Horowitz müssen den örtlichen Polizeikräften zu Hilfe eilen. Der neue Fall für Hawthorne und Horowitz dreht sich um jede Menge aufgebrachte Inselbewohner und ein ominöses Literaturfestival, und wird mörderisch-spannend von Uve Teschner gelesen. Umfang: 303 Min.
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