Killing Magpies

Editor Susan Ryland reads the manuscript of a detective novel eagerly awaited by fans of the popular series and discovers that the most interesting part—the resolution—is missing. Susan begins the search for the missing pages while also imagining and trying to guess who the killer is in the novel, making a list of suspects… The news of the death of Alan Conway, the author of that very detective story, catches her off guard. Did he commit suicide? Was he the victim of an accident? But Susan has spent twenty years editing crime genre books, and the deductive method is well familiar to her. By comparing some facts, she concludes that a disguised murder has occurred and, risking her life, begins to unravel this detective knot…
A novel within a novel, a literary game full of puzzles and mystifications. For the first time in Russian!