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Violence
Some
Murder; Horowitz as suspect
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the metafiction of the author being suspected of murder; theater criticism and artistic ego as the murder's backdrop; Hawthorne's investigation of his own chronicler
What this book is about
The fourth Hawthorne and Horowitz mystery: a theater critic gives Anthony Horowitz's new play a cruel review, and then is found murdered with a knife from the production. Horowitz himself becomes the prime suspect. The metafictional element — the author as murder suspect in his own mystery novel — is Horowitz's most playful structural conceit.
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