The Art of the Murder Mystery Twist with Anthony Horowitz 

This needs to be turned into a full on Materclass lesson. His enthusiasm is palatable.

God, I love how enthusiastic he is! If he were a teacher he'd never have to fail a student! Also, wow, I'm just realizing he wrote the Alex Ryder novels! Those were my introduction to spy novels way back in high school!

It is lovely to hear Anthony Horowitz talk so eloquently and enthusiastically on the subject! Thank you for this video!

A real Masterclass in under fourteen minutes!

The guy is a genius! The passion is evident and enthusiasm comes across in bounds. He also comes across as a lovely guy.

Anthony Horowitz has always been my favourite author and he has long since inspired me to write my own mystery novels, I wouldn’t be the writer I am without him. This is an excellent video, his passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge are evident throughout and I would encourage all writers to read his works

Anthony Horowitz is one of my absolute favorite writers and this is very cool to see him talk like this about his works!!

This was pure oxygen! I'm writing a screenplay with a twist at the end of the fourth act. But I didn't realize it. My story is not a murder mystery, but with only a few tweaks I can introduce this element into the story.

What a wise fellow. He is an expert. People should always listen properly. We should always listen and respect experts like he.

The best twists in any genre are where you leave your audience completely shocked & utterly unsurprised at the same time.

I love how passionate he is

He has such a genuine personality, I stumbled upon this accidentally and now I want to write a murder mystery of my own!

I'm reading The Twist of a Knife now. Absolutely fascinating to see this video having read the whole series. I knew Mr. Horowitz had to be a good bloke!

I am most grateful to the creator of Foyle's War, undoubtedly the best series ever on tv for me.

This is the ideation process breakdown. I’ve always needed. I always felt like that. I couldn’t make story and it wasn’t a writer but the way you described it is exactly how I think and come up with things. I just felt it should be more certain and more obvious from the beginning. Thank you for sharing and I’m excited to read more of your work.

"Do the don'ts and don’t do the dos." 😊

Anthony is one of the towering talents of our age. Thank you for this.

My favourite twist ever is Hot Fuzz. In almost every mystery the twist is the victim, or killer, or not catching the killer. Hot Fuzz says yes the detective got everything right, except the motivation. Who got murdered, how they got murdered, and who did it, it as correct but there isn't some grand conspiracy, the murderers are just really petty.

Thank you Penguin, for posting this energised and exciting discussion.

hearing ngaio marsh even get a mention outside of nz made my heart warm

Wow that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Loved his Raven's Gate book series when I was in grade school.

Came across this after reading/participating in the Middle series I've always enjoyed Horrowitz's books but I never would have learned the method of creating one yourself

His enthusiasm is so infectious

Currently reading Magpie Murders and so glad he didn’t give a spoiler!

I love Anthony Horowitz work. It's a pleasure to meet him and hear him speak.

I’m writing a sequel to The Mousetrap where everyone’s already dead on the opening page, nobody says or does anything.

Finally someone who tells you what to do rather than 100 videos saying dont do this dont do that ❤

I’m reading through the sentence is death rn, and this is the first time I’ve actually heard his voice- Definitely gonna be interesting having a specific voice to listen to while I read lmaoo. (Is there any Daniel Hawthorne series fandom or is it just me because there’s like no content on these awesome books😭)

Love Anthony Horowitz! Such an amazing and entertaining writer! 🙂

I always appreciate advice from enthusiastic experts. And Anthony Horowitz seems like a really nice guy.

Thank-You for uploading this interview, when I find a Writer who’s work appeals to Me - I find Myself not only enjoying the story, but also peering between the lines trying to see the Person writing it. I guess that means I’m interested in the Writer: who they truly are, and how they think, and why - the Work an Artist does says so much about Themselves. I love AH’s fertile and fascinating Mind; his Work is extremely-creative/inventive, intelligent, insightful, detailed, realistic, informative, witty and fun. …His books are delightful to read, and their subject-matter spans many generations and time-periods; appealing to Many. The first books I read (and loved) were those of the Foyles War series. ….I was in My teens, and My Dad (who was reading them) introduced Me to the series; though I wasn’t at that time familiar with AH - and didn’t even realize that it was he who had written them until Last-Year when I read Magpie Murders, and searched for a complete list of Anthony Horowitz books. I was amazed that the Person who’d written Foyle’s War could have also written the books featuring Detective Nathanial Hawthorne and AH, Himself! …Although both were essentially murder-mysteries - they felt completely-different, to Me! (Now that I’ve read almost all of that series, I want to go back to Foyle’s War and read them again; wondering if I would now recognize in them the Author of Both.) There are few Authors who can think and write such fascinating, engaging and delightful Works, and it’s been a pleasure for Me to add AH to the list of My Favourite Authors. I have no-doubt that Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc… would have been extremely-proud and delighted to have known that their Work had inspired a young Reader to become the Writer that Anthony Horowitz is, Today! Thank-You for this (and other) peeks into his personality and writing-process!!!

This was excellent - just the kind of conversation I love to be able to share (or at least listen in on :) with an author!h

I love his books so much. The Horowitz series is just brilliant.

This was awesome, thank you!

This was so refreshing

This is so useful, thanks! Going to have ago at my own a b c mystery

Well this was a lucky find thanks Anthony

He reminds me of Geoffrey McGivern, the actor who played the neighbour in Ghosts.

Great - really interesting. Thanks

Wonderful

I will always always remember Anthony Horowitz for 'Gruesome Grange' - perhaps the original Hogwarts! Such fond childhood memories of those books. When someone recommended HP to me, the year the first came out, I found it utterly boring compared to Horowitz's world

i loved this

he inspires me just by the way he talks

omg i love this guy!

Thaaaaaanks yoouuuuuuuuu

Love his James Bond novels!

Interesting! I think I’ll use this as a method to plan some rpgs 😊

magpie murders is a phenomenally well written series

Magpie murder and moonflower murder are definitely few of his masterpieces

Anthony Horowitz is hired.

since it's come up - has anyone seen planet of the apes? I've always just known that end scene and not really the story itself. So is Charlton Heston not a human then? or is he a time traveller? If he thought he was not on earth, from where did he travel from to begin with? Or does he know the whole time and it is just us who don't?

I find that once I planned my story and know who, what, when, where, and how, I lose interest in my own story to such an extent that I don't have motivation to write it. Anyone with the same problem? Any suggestions?

That’s almost exactly how I write.

One or two years ?? Maybe this is why you want to keep them as short as Conan Doyle kept his for a Sherlock Holmes :-)

[11:20] As was said of S S Van Dine by a critic: Why spend one or two years of your life writing a murder mystery, when you can buy a perfectly good one for a fiver :-)

I'm too stupid to write crime fiction

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The great twist of Planet of the Apes is that his whole fight and hope of escape is useless.

If your interested fairytales these books aren’t for you : Journal of the lost king The boy in the hurricane

Charlton and astronauts must have been away from earth for a long, long time in order for the apes to evolve and develop intelligence, enough of it to rule planet earth, and they turn out to be no better than o.

Dear Mr. Horowitz I must disagree with you about Agatha Christie. It is well know among fair-play mystery writers that AC introduced new characters and facts in her solutions never before encountered. This of course is not to take anything away from her. She is pure genius. But in most of her works fair-play she is not.

Magpie murder and moonflower murder are definitely few of his masterpieces