El Crimen de la Habitación 12 / The Moonflower Murder

Susan Ryeland, insatisfecha con su nueva vida en Creta, echa de menos Londres. Un d燰, recibe la visita de Lawrence y Pauline Treherne, propietarios de Branlow Hall, un lujoso hotel en Inglaterra. El matrimonio pide ayuda a Susan para encontrar a su hija. Cecily desapareci?poco despu廥 de asegurar a sus padres que el hombre que cumple condena por un crimen cometido en su establecimiento es inocente.

El d燰 de la boda de Cecily, hace ocho a隳s, Frank Parris, hu廥ped del hotel, fue brutalmente asesinado a golpes en su habitaci鏮. Uno de los miembros del personal, Stefan Codrescu, fue declarado culpable y cumple condena en la c嫫cel. Sin embargo, despu廥 de leer la novela del difunto escritor Alan Conway, inspirada en el asesinato de Parris, Cecily se declar?convencida de la inocencia de Codrescu. Susan era la editora de Conway, por eso la pareja ha viajado a Creta; tal vez ella sea capaz de releer su novela y descifrar el misterio.

De vuelta en Inglaterra, Susan se instala en Branlow Hall, donde es recibida con hostilidad, evasivas e intentos de manipulaci鏮. Un asesino anda suelto.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London.

And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married--a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall--fascinates Susan and piques her editor's instincts.

One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim--an advertising executive named Frank Parris--and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime.

The Trehearne's, daughter, Cecily, read Conway's mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris's murder--a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel's handyman--is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.

Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz.