The Diamond Brothers in The Blurred Man & I Know What You Did Last Wednesday

Diamond Brothers #4&6

by Anthony Horowitz

Two Diamond Brothers cases in one sparkling volume by the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider series. Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world's worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof by Anthony Horowitz, creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series. Tim Diamond is the world's worst private detective, but unfortunately for his younger brother Nick, the cases keep coming in. First a man runover by a steamroller, and then a remote Scottish island where the guests are dying. Can Nick and Tim find the murderers before it's too late?

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

Published May 5, 2016

About the author

Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009.

On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/anthon...

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book was one of the best story in all the Diamond-Brothers series I've read because the second story was very interesting. The story was about a mystery about murder. Tim was invited to a high school reunion, held by a guy named Rory McDougal. However when Tim first arrived at McDougal's private island with his brother Nick and his other past-friends, McDougal was found dead. He was stabbed by something. And day after day when Tim and his friends stayed in the residence, somebody died when no one was looking. Then, Nick, who was smarter than any other people in the room (which was quite silly), found a pattern. Everyone died with something related to the best subject they did in high school. For example, a woman named Janet always came first in French, so she died by being stabbed by an Eiffel Tower model. Brenda died by being hit by and organ, because the always came first in music. Later, it turned out that the murderer, Nadler, who always came into 2nd in every, used all those remote controllers to kill everyone, and everything was planned. In the last, only Tim, Nick, and a guy named Eric survived, and they arrested Nadler and went back to land. I think why I liked this story so much was because every moment was providing suspense. Every time when someone died out, it was scary, and at the same time, the range of who the criminal was was being smaller and smaller. I was so interested. I kept reading this book even though it was passed my bed time. Later, it turned out that no one in the members invited to the reunion was the murderer, so that was another reversal. Furthermore, I want to praise Nick for being calm even though the murderer was very close, taking care of his brother, and solving the mystery in the end.

[John Naylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two books in one.

I admire Horowitz for the way he can make every line a joke. His cannon fodder of Tim dies helps with this. Nick is slightly too smart for his own good.

The Blurred Man is action packed and I admit I missed a huge clue during it. Well worth reading.

I Know What You Did Last Wednesday is a whodunnit. I admit I had the right suspect in my head but not quite the why-done-it. Entertaining and full of dead bodies.

Definitely worth reading both!

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great read, fast moving and very amusing

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both of these stories are really good. However I prefer I know what you did last Wednesday I was simultaneously hooked and terrified while reading.

[Joud Algorain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it when the Diamond brothers help each other because they love each other .

The best part in the story is when they find out about who killed their friends.

[Sankarareddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Farhana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is such a good series😭😭I would give it 5 stars but the 2nd part of the book was abit far fetched