New York: Harper Collins, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another re-invention of the classic crime novel by the author of 'The Magpie Murders.' "One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz." 387 pp. ISBN: 978-0062676788.