In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit, Anthony's new play is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater. Hawthorne, his newly estranged partner, declines a ticket to the opening night. The play is panned by the critics. The next day, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony. Anthony is arrested by an old enemy . . . Detective Inspector Cara Grunshaw. Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby’s murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him.