{"product_id":"9780062845863","title":"The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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?\" - \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMagpie Murders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoriarty\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Sherlock Holmes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter 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 this witty mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as this meta mystery 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42900686012477,"sku":"9780062845863","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062845863_p0.jpg?v=1771565531","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780062845863","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}