real to have a parasocial beef with an english writer because hes engendered himself to the modern popularity of detective fiction and i cant even say everything he writes is bad but when something stinks its got his grubbylittlemitts all over it
his name is anthony horowitz and if youve even looked at the screenwriter or author on whatever popular detective show or mystery book of the day is, theres like a 30% its him
i mostly hate him because he wrote house of silk, the "first book not written by ACD accepted into the sherlock holmes canon by the ACD estate" and im going to spoil it right now because you shouldnt read it, the entire plot circles around a shockingly grimdark child sexual abuse and prostitution ring frequented by numerous members of british government, perpetuated by the orphanage system. it fucking sucks as the solution to the mystery and it sucks that the resolution of the book amounted to "guy who ran the ring is friends with influential people so he'll escape charges and just do the same thing in a different country".
and then because his stupid name is lodged in my head i noticed him as a writing credit on the suchet poirot tv show from the 90s. and then i learned that he has a relatively new tv show about a woman who is a mystery writer and has dysfunctional relationship with every person in her life because she keeps writing them into her murder mystery novels and also she hallucinates the main character of her novels telling her to solve whatever mystery is actually happening in the episode.
very clearly this guy is like ingrained in the system and i dont think hes a bad writer but hes a really fucking annoying one and feels like one of those people that need close oversight on his more "creative" decisions when developing a new mystery thing.
anyway i reminded myself of this today so i ovbs need to tell cohost about rather than yell at my roommates about it for the 40th time.
