Magpies-killers. Gorovitz E.

editor Susan Reylend reads the manuscript of a detective novel, which fans of a popular series are looking forward to, and discovers what is lacking the most interesting - interchange. Susan begins to search for missing pages and along the way fantasizes, trying to guess who is the killer in the novel, draws up a list of suspects...

the news of the death of Alan Convee, the author of that detective, finds her by surprise. Did he commit suicide? Became a victim of an accident? But Susan was not in vain for twenty years edited by the books of the criminal genre, the deductive method familiar her firsthand. Having compared some facts, she concludes that a disguised murder has occurred, and this detective ball begins to unravel the risk to life...

a novel in the novel, a literary game full of mysteries and mystification.