Capital Crime 2024: Breaking the Fourth Wall

 Thursday 30 May
Leonardo St Paul's, London
17:15 - 18:05

Anthony Horowitz and Elly Griffiths
talk about writing authors as fictional characters,
Creating impossible puzzles,
and making improbable stories probable

Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and the latest Close to Death is out in April 2024.

He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.

Elly Griffiths is the author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series, and the Brighton Mysteries. She won the 2020 Edgar Award for The Stranger Diaries and, in 2016, was awarded the CWA Dagger in The Library. The 15^th Ruth book, The Last Remains, was published in January 2023. Her latest series features, Harbinder Kaur. There are four books in the series. Elly also writes the Justice Jones mystery series for children.

www.ellygriffiths.co.uk  

www.capitalcrime.org