What Makes A Good Whodunit? 'Magpie Murders' Author Spells It Out
Anthony Horowitz's latest novel is a whodunit about whodunits. He says, "I wanted it to be ... a sort of a treatise on the whole genre of murder mystery writing."
Murder. For writer Anthony Horowitz, that's where it all starts. He says everyone is fascinated by murder — just look at Foyle's War, his BBC mystery series. The show is set in the U.K. during World War II, but that wasn't its selling point.
"If I had gone to the BBC and said I wanted write about, I don't know, the social history of 1940
