TheWordIsMurder

One bright spring morning in London, wealthy Diana Cowper - mother of a famous actor - visits a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later, she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant and eccentric investigator with a penchant for insults and a knack for cracking cases. Disgraced and in need of a ghost writer to document his life, Hawthorne chooses Anthony Horowitz as his Watson to his Holmes.

Drawn into the investigation against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself at the center of a story he cannot control. Though Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental, and annoying, his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. Together the unlikely duo forms an unusual partnership, but it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

作者简介

安东尼·霍洛维茨|AnthonyHorowitz(1955—)英国知名侦探小说作家、编剧。一九五五年四月，霍洛维茨出生于伦敦一个富裕的犹太家庭。童年时期虽生活优渥，但并不快乐。据他回忆，作为一个超重又内向的孩子，经常遭到校长体罚，在学校的经历也被他描述成“残酷的体验”。八岁时，他就意识到自己会成为一名作家。他说：“只有在写作时，我才会感到由衷的快乐。”母亲是霍洛维茨在文学世界的启蒙者，不仅引导他阅读大量书籍，甚至在他十三岁生日时送给他一副人类骸骨。他表示，这件礼物让他意识到“所有人的最终结局都不过是白骨一具”。其父因与时任英国首相哈罗德·威尔逊的政客圈子过从甚密，为了自保，将财产秘密转入瑞士的隐秘账户。结果在霍洛维茨二十二岁时，父亲因癌症去世，大额财产下落不明使霍洛维茨与母亲陷入困境，自此家境一落千丈。一九七七年，霍洛维茨毕业于约...