BOOK REVIEW: 'The Magpie Murders'
The ghost of Agatha Christie hovers over "The Magpie Murders," Anthony Horowitz's dark and deft mystery. It is not a thriller, it is too clever for that. The image of magpies clustered in a tree is the kind of gently ghoulish humor that characterized Christie's work, yet this is a much more complicated and sophisticated portrayal…
