Are you a sucker for a laugh? Do you love a killer mystery? There’s lethal punfire spraying in every direction in Anthony Horowitz’s daft detective spoofs. Want a mystery solving? Then DON’T hire the Diamond Brothers, the world’s worst private detectives. Whether they’re staking out ruthless gangsters, hunting down sinister crooks or attending a very deadly school reunion, they’re always hot on the tail of disaster. And every clue they find is a red herring!

Spoof detective fiction by the author of Alex Rider

Funny mysteries which send up classic crime thrillers

Accessible shorter books with bags of pace and humour

Anthony Horowitz also writes the Power of Five books

This set contains five books: The Falcon’s Malteser, South By South East, Public Enemy Number Two, The French Confection and The Blurred Man.

Product Details

Catalogue number

5958 in Rewards Catalogue 2019/20

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406381498

Date published

March 1st, 2018

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..