How these books speak to each other is one of many puzzles ripe for solving. Yes, there are two novels here - one an old-fashioned whodunit, the other a modern meta-story - meaning that what we are reading can literally be described as a mystery wrapped in an enigma. “The more obvious the answer, the more difficult it can be to find,” he declares.īut here’s the thing about Pünd: He’s not technically a character in Horowitz’s book, but a character in another book, “Atticus Pünd Takes the Case,” which is inside the first book. The private detective Atticus Pünd appears to have stepped directly from the pages of a classic golden-age mystery and into Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, “Moonflower Murders.” Brilliant, arrogant, indisputably foreign, Pünd prides himself on understanding the inner workings of the human psyche, and is prone to dropping aphoristic bon mots.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |