Editing Anthony Horowitz

{{short description|English novelist and screenwriter (born 1955)}}
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| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE}}
| name             = Anthony Horowitz
| image            = Anthony Horowitz 20221130.jpg
| caption          = Horowitz in 2022
| birth_name       = Anthony John Horowitz
| birth_place      = [[Stanmore, Middlesex]]<!-- Do not change to London; Stanmore was part of Middlesex in 1955 -->, England
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1955|4|5|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Horowitz, Anthony, 1955– |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80062674.html |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=1 May 2015 |quote=(Anthony Horowitz) CIP data sheet (b. April 5, 1955) }}</ref>
| occupation       = Novelist, screenwriter, children's author & adult author
| genre            = Adventure, mystery, thriller, horror, fantasy
| notableworks     = {{Plainlist}}
* ''[[Alex Rider]]''
* ''[[The Power of Five]]''
* ''[[The Diamond Brothers]]''
* ''[[Foyle's War]]''
* ''[[The House of Silk]]''
* ''[[Magpie Murders]]''
{{Endplainlist}}
| alma_mater       = [[University of York]]
| spouse           = {{marriage|Jill Green|1988}}
| children         = 2
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| website          = {{URL|anthonyhorowitz.com}}
}}
'''Anthony John Horowitz''' (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for [[MI6]], ''[[The Power of Five]]'' series (known as ''[[The Power of Five|The Gatekeepers]]'' in the US), and ''[[The Diamond Brothers]]'' series.

Horowitz's works for adults include: the play ''[[Mindgame (play)|Mindgame]]'' (2001); two [[Sherlock Holmes]] novels, ''[[The House of Silk]]'' (2011) and ''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, ''[[Magpie Murders]]'' (2016) and ''[[Moonflower Murders]]'' (2020); five novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: ''[[The Word Is Murder]]'' (2017), ''[[The Sentence Is Death]]'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022), and ''Close to Death'' (2024).

The estate of [[James Bond]] creator [[Ian Fleming]] chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with ''[[Trigger Mortis]]'' in 2015, followed by ''[[Forever and a Day (novel)|Forever and a Day]]'' in 2018, and a third and final novel ''With a Mind to Kill'' in May 2022.

Horowitz has also written for television, contributing scripts to [[ITV Network|ITV]]'s ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' and adapting six early episodes of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' from the novels of [[Caroline Graham (writer)|Caroline Graham]], including the first three episodes. He was the creator and writer of the ITV series  ''[[Foyle's War]]'', ''[[Collision (TV series)|Collision]]'' and ''[[Injustice (British TV series)|Injustice]]'', and the [[BBC]] series ''[[Crime Traveller]]'' and ''[[New Blood (TV series)|New Blood]]''.

== Early life ==
[[File:Rugby School 850.jpg|right|thumb|Rugby School in Warwickshire]]
Horowitz was born in [[Stanmore]], [[Middlesex]],<!-- Not Harrow in 1955 - it changed in 1963 --> into a [[Jewish]] family, and in his early years lived an [[upper middle class]] lifestyle.<ref name="horosons">{{cite web|author=Purdon, Fiona|date=14 November 2008|title=Anthony Horowitz has lost his role models for Alex Rider|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24641071-7642,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230170325/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24641071-7642,00.html|archive-date=30 December 2012|access-date=6 December 2008|work=[[The Courier-Mail]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/about/ |title=Anthony Horowitz – About Anthony |access-date=6 December 2008 |author=Horowitz, Anthony |publisher=AnthonyHorowitz.com| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081216080906/http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/about/| archive-date= 16 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="jewishexpotent">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/10950/ |title=Horowitz ... Anthony Horowitz – After a childhood shaken and stirred, the writer bonds with film fans |access-date=24 April 2015 |author=Elkin, Michael |date=12 October 2006 |work=[[The Jewish Exponent]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112155100/http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/10950/ |archive-date=12 January 2008 }}</ref> As a child, Horowitz used to go to [[Instow]], where his nanny took him boating on the [[River Torridge]]. He also had a stuffed monkey named Benjamin (which was later eaten by his dog).<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=1494797385867960329 |date=18 February 2022 |title=@CelineVivet @WeegieDoll The dog ate him twenty years ago. 😢 |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220185953/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/1494797385867960329 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Horowitz attended [[Orley Farm School]]. He started writing at the age of eight or nine and he instantly knew he would be a professional writer. This was because he was an underachiever in school and was not physically fit, and found his escape in books and telling stories. In a 2006 interview, Horowitz stated "I was quite certain, from my earliest memory, that I would be a professional writer and nothing but."<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Interview With Anthony Horowitz {{!}} Scholastic|url=http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/interview-anthony-horowitz/|access-date=2020-06-17|website=www.scholastic.com}}</ref>

At age 13 he went to [[Rugby School]], a [[Public school (United Kingdom)|public school]], in [[Rugby, Warwickshire]].  He graduated from the [[University of York]] with a lower second class degree in [[English literature]] and [[art history]] in 1977, where he was in [[Vanbrugh College, York|Vanbrugh College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/10/13/from-booze-to-books/|title=From booze to books|last=Nouse|date=13 October 2009|work=nouse.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |year= 2010 |title=York honours contributions to society |journal=Grapevine |issue=2010 Autumn/Winter |page=6 |publisher=Alumni Office, [[University of York]] |url=http://uoygrapevineonline.com/2013/01/29/university-news-autumnwinter-2010/ |access-date= 8 February 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150604091913/http://uoygrapevineonline.com/2013/01/29/university-news-autumnwinter-2010/ |archive-date= 4 June 2015 |url-status= dead}}</ref>

Horowitz's mother introduced him to ''[[Frankenstein]]'' and ''[[Dracula]]''. She gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. Horowitz said in an interview that it reminds him to get to the end of each story since he will soon look like the skull.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/22/my-writing-day-anthony-horowitz |title=Anthony Horowitz: 'I don't have breakfast. If I can hold off eating, I work better' |newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 October 2016|access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref> 

Horowitz's father was associated with some of the politicians in the "circle" of prime minister [[Harold Wilson]], including [[Eric Miller (businessman)|Eric Miller]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |title=Loose Ends |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |date= 23 March 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cp33 |access-date=22 September 2023 }}</ref> Facing bankruptcy, he moved his assets into [[Swiss bank|Swiss numbered bank accounts]]. He died from [[cancer]] when Horowitz was 22, and the family was never able to track down the missing money despite years of trying.<ref name="jewishexpotent"/> This left the family bankrupt, requiring the sale of the large family home.<ref name=Kean2017 />

==Literary career==

===Early literary work (1979–1991)===

Anthony Horowitz's first book, ''The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower'', was a humorous adventure for children that was published in 1979<ref>Anthony Horowitz. ''The Sinister Secret of Frederick K. Bower'' (London: Arlington Books, 1979)</ref> and later reissued as ''Enter Frederick K Bower'' in 1985. In 1981 his second novel, ''Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet'' was published and he moved to Paris to write his third book.<ref>Anthony Horowitz. ''Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet'' (London: Arlington Books, 1981)</ref>

In 1983, the first novel in the Pentagram series was released. Entitled ''The Devil's Door-Bell'', the story saw thirteen-year-old Martin Hopkins trying to adjust to a new life with a foster mother on a Yorkshire farm, but it quickly becomes a nightmare when he ends up having to battle an ancient evil that threatens the whole world. Only three of the four remaining novels in the series were ever released: ''[[The Night of the Scorpion]]'' (1984), ''The Silver Citadel'' (1986) and ''Day of the Dragon'' (1986).

In 1985, he released ''Myths and Legends'', a collection of retold tales from around the world. He was also involved in writing scripts for the cult 1980s television series ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' and a [[novelization|novelisation]], ''The Hooded Man''.

In 1988, ''[[Groosham Grange]]'' was published. Its central character is a thirteen-year-old "witch", David Eliot, gifted as the [[seventh son of a seventh son]]. This book went on to win the 1989 [[Lancashire Children's Book of the Year|Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award]].<ref name="cboty">{{cite web |title=Lancashire Children's Book of the Year|url=http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/services/children/cboty/cbotyhistory.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626205848/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/services/children/cboty/cbotyhistory.asp|archive-date=26 June 2007}}</ref> Some similarities have been noted between this book and J K Rowling's later ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, but Horowitz did not choose to take action because of this.<ref>{{Cite web |title=YOZONE : Anthony Horowitz sur la Yozone – (Cyberespace de l'imaginaire |url=http://www.yozone.fr/spip.php?article2813 |date=22 October 2006 |first=Michael |last=Espinosa |language=fr |access-date=June 7, 2021 |website=www.yozone.fr}}</ref>

The most important release of Horowitz's early career was ''[[The Falcon's Malteser]]'' (1986). This book was the first in the successful [[The Diamond Brothers|Diamond Brothers]] series, and was followed in 1987 by ''[[Public Enemy Number Two]]'', and by ''South by South East'' in 1991.

=== Early children's fiction success (1992–1999) ===

Horowitz wrote many stand-alone novels in the 1990s. His 1994 novel ''Granny,'' a comedy thriller about an evil grandmother, was Horowitz's first book in three years, and it was the first of three books for an audience similar to that of ''Groosham Grange''. The second of these was ''The Switch'', a body swap story, first published in 1996. The third was 1997's ''[[The Devil and His Boy]]'', which is set in the [[Elizabethan era]] and explores the rumour of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]'s secret son.

In 1999, ''[[Return to Groosham Grange|The Unholy Grail]]'' was published as a sequel to ''Groosham Grange''. It was later renamed ''Return to Groosham Grange'' in 2003, possibly to help young readers understand the connection between the two books. In 2021, Horowitz revealed to a fan on [[Twitter]] that he had plans to write a third book, but was dissuaded after the success of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series''.''<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=1393624307876704256 |date=15 May 2021 |title=@ChristianGauci I was planning a third book. But then someone called Harry Potter came along... 🥲 |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607160805/https://twitter.com/AnthonyHorowitz/status/1393624307876704256 |archive-date=7 June 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the same year, Horowitz published a collection of several short horror stories aimed for children and young adults, entitled ''[[Horowitz Horror]]'' (1999). This was an opportunity for Horowitz to further explore a darker side of his writing.

Some time before the [[new millennium]], Horowitz attempted to reach out to an adult audience with a novel called ''Poisoned Pen.'' The novel is based around Martin Holland, who is a childhood friend of a 21st century incarnation of [[William Shakespeare]]. In the novel, William Shakespeare is reimagined as a Hollywood screenwriter who is murdered in a set of circumstances that Martin Holland finds rather odd, despite attempts from a [[Los Angeles]] detective to dissuade him. The novel follows Martin's attempts to solve the ever-growing mystery through a series of rather unusual circumstances and a number of people who seem rather glad that Shakespeare was murdered. The novel has never been published in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] or even in [[English language|English]], but copies in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Dutch language|Dutch]] have been released (retitled as ''El asesinato de Shakespeare'' and ''William S.'' respectively).<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=1400677048117497862 |date=4 June 2021 |title=@magicalmomU7 It can't be found. It was never published in English. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701003024/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/1400677048117497862 |archive-date=1 July 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> As of June 2021, despite Horowitz's recent successes in adult literature, there are no plans to get the novel republished.

=== Mainstream children's fiction success (2000–2010) ===

Horowitz began his most famous and successful series in the [[new millennium]] with the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' novels. These books are about a 14-year-old boy becoming a [[spy]], a member of the British Secret Service branch MI6. As of 2024, there are eleven books where Alex Rider is the protagonist, and another connected to the Alex Rider series: ''[[Stormbreaker (novel)|Stormbreaker]]'' (2000), ''[[Point Blanc]]'' (2001), ''[[Skeleton Key (novel)|Skeleton Key]]'' (2002), ''[[Eagle Strike]]'' (2003), ''[[Scorpia (novel)|Scorpia]]'' (2004) ''[[Ark Angel]]'' (2005), ''[[Snakehead (novel)|Snakehead]]'' (2007), ''[[Crocodile Tears (novel)|Crocodile Tears]]'' (2009), ''[[Scorpia Rising]]'' (2011), plus ''[[Russian Roulette (novel)|Russian Roulette]]'' (2013).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://anthonyhorowitz.com/newscentre/alexrider/february-nightrise-walker-books-and-snakehead/26/ |title=News – Nightrise, Walker Books and Snakehead |website=anthonyhorowitz.com |access-date=10 June 2012 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721022357/http://anthonyhorowitz.com/newscentre/alexrider/february-nightrise-walker-books-and-snakehead/26/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Horowitz had stated that ''Scorpia Rising'' was to be the last book in the Alex Rider series prior to writing ''Russian Roulette'' about the life of [[Yassen Gregorovich]],<ref>[http://anthonyhorowitz.com/newscentre/category/alexrider/) ''Scorpia Rising'']{{dead link|date=May 2014}} Horowitz official site</ref> but he has returned to the series with ''Never Say Die'' (2017), ''Nightshade'' (2020) and ''Nightshade Revenge'' (2023).

In 2003, Horowitz also wrote three novellas featuring the Diamond Brothers: [[The Blurred Man]], ''[[The French Confection]]'' and ''[[I Know What You Did Last Wednesday]]'', which were republished together as ''[[Three of Diamonds]]'' in 2004. The author information page in early editions of ''[[Alex Rider#Scorpia|Scorpia]]'' and the introduction to ''[[Three of Diamonds]]'' claimed that Horowitz had travelled to Australia to research a new Diamond Brothers book, entitled ''Radius of the Lost Shark''. This claim was further backed up when a new Diamond Brothers novella entitled ''The Greek who Stole Christmas!'' was released in 2007, where it is hinted at the end that ''Radius of the Lost Shark'' may turn out to be the eighth entry in the series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10151_18251_95165_100_17604_17604_category_ |title=The Greek Who Stole Christmas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109134950/http://www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10151_18251_95165_100_17604_17604_category_ |archive-date=9 November 2007 |first=Anthony |last=Horowitz |publisher=Red House Books }}</ref> However, the next novel in the series was instead called ''Where Seagulls Dare'', and is unrelated to the Australian-based adventure that was previously announced. Horowitz published the first six chapters unedited on his website throughout 2020, and the full, edited novel was published in 2022, with all profits going to support the [[National Health Service|NHS]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-26|title=WHERE SEAGULLS DARE – Diamond Brothers – Read the first Chapter Now! {{!}} News|url=https://anthonyhorowitz.com/news/story/where-seagulls-dare-diamond-brothers-read-the-first-chapter-now|access-date=2021-04-13|website=Anthony Horowitz|language=en}}</ref>

Horowitz also published two sequels to his short horror story collection; ''[[More Horowitz Horror]]'' (2000) and ''More Bloody Horowitz'' (2009). Many of the stories in ''Horowitz Horror'' and ''More Horowitz Horror'' were later repackaged in twos or threes as the ''Pocket Horowitz'' series, while ''More Bloody Horowitz'' was later reissued as ''Scared to Death''. One of the short stories in ''More Bloody Horowitz'' is notable for serving as Horowitz's opportunity to get even with fellow author [[Darren O'Shaughnessy]], more commonly known as Darren Shan. In 2008, the pair had gotten into a joke dispute over O'Shaughnessy's use of Horowitz's name for an objectionable character (Antoine Horwitzer) in [[Wolf Island (novel)|''Wolf Island'']].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wolf Island – Darren Shan – Author|url=https://darrenshan.com/books/details/Wolf_Island|access-date=2021-05-13|website=darrenshan.com}}</ref> In retaliation, Horowitz chose to plot a gruesome literary revenge in the short story ''The Man Who Killed Darren Shan.''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-10-28|title=NECROPOLIS, NEW YORK AND A QUESTION: SHOULD I SUE DARREN SHAN? {{!}} News|url=https://anthonyhorowitz.com/news/story/necropolis-new-york-and-a-question-should-i-sue-darren-shan/73|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Anthony Horowitz|language=en}}</ref>

In 2004, Horowitz again attempted to branch out to an adult audience with ''[[The Killing Joke (novel)|The Killing Joke]]'', a comedy about a man who tries to track a joke to its source with disastrous consequences. The book was not very successful, and in August 2005, Horowitz returned to young adult fiction by releasing a book called ''[[Raven's Gate]]'' which began a second successful series entitled ''[[The Power of Five]]'' (''The Gatekeepers'' in the United States). Based heavily on one of his earlier novels entitled ''The Devil's Door-Bell'', each of the first four entries of ''The Power of Five'' subsequently ended up being a rewritten and expanded version of their respective counterpart from the ''Pentagram'' series. The second book in the series, ''[[Evil Star (novel)|Evil Star]]'' (based on ''The Night of the Scorpion'')'','' was released in April 2006. The third in the series is called ''[[Nightrise]]'' (based on ''The Silver Citadel''), and was released on 2 April 2007. The fourth book ''[[Necropolis (2008 novel)|Necropolis]]'' (based on ''Day of the Dragon'') was released in October 2008. The fifth and final book, the only one not based on an earlier ''Pentagram'' novel, was released in October 2012 and is called ''[[Oblivion (Power of Five)|Oblivion]]''. Horowitz describes this series as "Alex Rider with devils and witches".<ref name="ahorowitz2">{{cite web|title=News – January 2005|url=http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/news/archive/jan2005.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323022301/http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/news/archive/jan2005.html|archive-date=23 March 2006|website=anthonyhorowitz.com}}</ref>

In October 2008, Anthony Horowitz's play ''[[Mindgame (play)|Mindgame]]'' opened Off Broadway at the [[SoHo Playhouse]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/theater/reviews/10mind.html|first1=Charles|last1=Isherwood|author-link=Charles Isherwood|title=Journalist in Asylum Lacks Exit Strategy |date=9 November 2008|website=[[The New York Times]] Theater Reviews |access-date=21 July 2018}}</ref> ''Mindgame'' starred [[Keith Carradine]], Lee Godart, and Kathleen McNenny. The production was the New York stage directorial debut for [[Ken Russell]].

In March 2009 he was a guest on ''[[Private Passions]]'', the biographical music discussion programme on [[BBC Radio 3]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/privatepassions/ |title=Private Passions |publisher=BBC Radio 3 |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=10 June 2012}}</ref>

===Continued success (2011–present)===

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]]''. It was both published,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/news/anthony-horowitz-to-write-new-sherlock-holmes-novel |title=Alex Rider Author, Anthony Horowitz to Write New Sherlock Holmes Novel |publisher=Orion Books |date=17 January 2011 |access-date=10 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320055011/http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/news/anthony-horowitz-to-write-new-sherlock-holmes-novel |archive-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead}} [https://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/news/story/alex-rider-author-anthony-horowitz-to-write-new-sherlock-holmes-novel Copy at Anthony Horowitz site]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2011/01/110119_sherlock_holmes_nh_hs.shtml |title=Sherlock Holmes brought back to life by writer Anthony Horowitz |publisher=BBC World Service|date=19 January 2011 |access-date=10 June 2012}}</ref> in November of 2011 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017b817 |title=The House of Silk|website=Book at Bedtime|publisher=BBC Radio 4 |date=18 November 2011 |access-date=10 June 2012}}</ref> A follow-up novel, ''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'', was published in 2014.

In October 2014, the estate of [[Ian Fleming]] commissioned Horowitz to write a [[James Bond]] novel, ''[[Trigger Mortis]]'', which was released in 2015. It was followed by a second novel, ''[[Forever and a Day (novel)|Forever]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/12/sherlock-holmes-novel-anthony-horowitz|title=New Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz out in November|last=Kennedy|first=Maev|date=12 April 2011|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> ''[[Forever and a Day (novel)|and A Day]]'', which came out on 31 May 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ianfleming.com/forever-and-a-day/|title=Forever and A Day|date=8 February 2018|work=Ian Fleming Publications}}</ref> A third novel entitled ''With a Mind to Kill'' was released on 17 May 2022.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ianfleming.com/items/with-a-mind-to-kill/|title=With a Mind To Kill|date=17 May 2022|access-date=2023-12-19|website=Ian Fleming|language=en-GB}}</ref> Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by [[Ian Fleming Publications]] to write successive, official James Bond novels.

In 2016, Horowitz's adult novel ''[[Magpie Murders]]'' was published. Having previously spoken about the book in 2005, it was initially described as being about "a whodunit writer who is murdered while he's writing his latest whodunit".<ref name="orionbooks">{{cite web |title=Anthony Horowitz, author of The Killing Joke, answers our questions |url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/QandA.aspx?id=10964&catID=0 |publisher=Orion Publishing Group |access-date=12 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012039/http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/QandA.aspx?id=10964&catID=0 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Horowitz finally finished it in late 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/after-penning-sherlock-holmes-novel-moriarty-anthony-horowitz-is-set-to-tackle-james-bond-9799095.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/after-penning-sherlock-holmes-novel-moriarty-anthony-horowitz-is-set-to-tackle-james-bond-9799095.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=First Sherlock, now Bond: Why Anthony Horowitz is on a roll|date=16 October 2014|work=independent.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and it was published in October 2016.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Orion Publishing Group |title=Author of MORIARTY and TRIGGER MORTIS, Anthony Horowitz offers up a whodunit like no other in this fiendishly clever new novel |url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781409158363 |access-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312072907/https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781409158363 |archive-date=12 March 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  A follow-up novel, ''[[Moonflower Murders]]'', was released in 2020. A third and final novel in the series, Marble Hall Murders is expected to be released in April 2025.<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=1480466906616418305 |date=10 January 2022 |title=@jonneal_UK @WoodbridgeEmpor I hope to write it next year. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121160915/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/1480466906616418305 |archive-date=21 January 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, Horowitz began a new series of detective novels which includes himself as a novelist enlisted by an out-of-work detective called Hawthorne to write books about the way Hawthorne solves crimes. The fictional Horowitz accompanies Hawthorne as he investigates murders committed in London and other locations. So far, starting with ''The Word is Murder'', five of these books have appeared, with three others commissioned.

In 2011, Horowitz tweeted that he had plans to write a new trilogy for the same demographic as his ''Alex Rider'' and ''Power of Five'' books, but that it's still "a secret".<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=135951042490798080 |date=14 November 2011 |title=@sqaushpool I have a three-part series in mind but it's a secret. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022}}</ref> During 2012 and 2013, Horowitz tweeted out some more information regarding the series, where he stated that it will be "a completely new genre" from anything else he'd done so far,<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=223926638927294464 |date=13 July 2012 |title=@SoopaNinjaa One more series, a trilogy, to come. It's a completely new genre. No spies. No detectives. Quite excited... |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120103358/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/223926638927294464 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> and that it will have a contemporary setting in modern-day London with a 15-year-old protagonist. He also revealed that it's tentatively entitled ''The Machine''.<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=382072942915358720 |date=23 September 2013 |title=@christianb572 Modern day. 15-year-old hero with parents and sister. London setting. Possible title: The Machine. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120012252/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/382072942915358720 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, Horowitz revealed in 2021 that he has yet to begin writing this series and that he has no immediate plans to do so.<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=1359403954732494849 |date=10 February 2021 |title=@ChristianGauci Still in my thoughts. I will write it one day. But not yet. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201001141/https://twitter.com/anthonyhorowitz/status/1359403954732494849 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Film and television career==

=== Film ===
Horowitz wrote the screenplay for ''[[Just Ask for Diamond]]'', a 1989 film adaptation of his ''Diamond Brothers'' novel ''The Falcon's Malteser'' that had an all-star cast which included [[Bill Paterson (actor)|Bill Paterson]], [[Jimmy Nail]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Susannah York]], [[Michael Robbins]] and [[Patricia Hodge]], and featured Colin Dale and [[Dursley McLinden]] as Nick and Tim Diamond respectively.

Horowitz is the writer of a feature film screenplay, ''[[The Gathering (2003 film)|The Gathering]]'', which was released in 2003 and starred [[Christina Ricci]].

He wrote the screenplay for Alex Rider's first major motion picture, ''[[Stormbreaker (film)|Stormbreaker]]''.

=== Television ===
Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, contributing to the children's anthology series ''[[Dramarama (television)|Dramarama]]'', and also writing five episodes of the third season for the popular fantasy series ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]''. He also novelised three of Carpenter's episodes as a children's book under the title ''Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man'' (1986).

In addition, he created ''[[Crossbow (TV series)|Crossbow]]'' (1987), a half-hour action adventure series loosely based on [[William Tell]]. This era in Horowitz's career also saw the release of ''Adventurer'' (1987), a thriller about a convict stuck on a prisoner ship with his sworn enemy based on the Richard Carpenter series, and ''[[Starting Out (UK TV series)|Starting Out]]'' (1990), a collection of screenplays by the author himself, published.

His association with murder mysteries began with the adaptation of several [[Hercule Poirot]] stories for [[ITV Network|ITV]]'s popular ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' series during the 1990s. Often his work has a comic edge, such as with the comic murder anthology ''[[Murder Most Horrid]]'' (BBC Two, 1991) and the comedy-drama ''The Last Englishman'' (1995), starring [[Jim Broadbent]].

In 1991, ''[[The Diamond Brothers: South by South East|The Diamond Brothers]]'', a six-part television series written and directed by Horowitz himself, was broadcast on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. The series is based on the book ''South by South East'', which Horowitz claimed he wrote after he had written the television series, effectively making ''South by South East'' a novelisation of the television series rather than the novel acting as the primary source of inspiration. Both McLinden and Dale reprised their respective film roles, which makes the television series act as a sequel to ''Just Ask for Diamond''.

From 1997, he wrote the majority of the episodes in the early series of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''. In 2001, he created a drama anthology series of his own for the BBC, ''Murder in Mind'', an occasional series which deals with a different set of characters and a different murder every one-hour episode.

He also created two short-lived [[science fiction on television|science-fiction shows]], ''[[Crime Traveller]]'' (1997) for BBC One and ''The Vanishing Man'' (pilot 1996, series 1998) for [[ITV Network|ITV]]. While ''Crime Traveller'' received favourable viewing figures it was not renewed for a second season, which Horowitz accounts to temporary personnel transitioning within the BBC.

In 2002, Horowitz created the series ''[[Foyle's War]]'', a historically-themed detective series set during and after the [[Second World War]]. The series became the longest-running among Horowitz's television projects, with a total of 28 episodes broadcast over eight series between 2002 and 2015.

Horowitz devised the 2009 ITV crime drama ''[[Collision (TV series)|Collision]]'' and co-wrote the screenplay with [[Michael A. Walker]].

Horowitz adapted his novel ''[[Magpie Murders]]'' into a television miniseries, which aired on [[BritBox]] and later [[BBC One]] in the UK and on the [[PBS]] series ''Masterpiece [[Mystery!]]'' in the US.<ref name= "magpietv">{{cite news |last=Halleman |first=Caroline |url= https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a33404686/magpie-murders-pbs-show/ |title=Anthony Horowitz's bestselling novel is being adapted for Masterpiece PBS. |work=[[Town & Country (magazine)|Town & Country]] |date=23 July 2020|access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref>

Filming commenced on the [[Canary Islands]] in the spring of 2024 on his television series ''[[Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2024/05/nine-bodies-in-a-mexican-morgue-full-cast-david-ajala-siobhan-mcsweeney-1235921451/|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=20 May 2024|title= 'Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue' Sets Full Cast, Including David Ajala, Siobhán McSweeney For Anthony Horowitz Limited Series|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=May 20, 2024 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Horowitz lives in Central London ([[Clerkenwell]]) with his wife Jill Green;<ref name=Kean2017 /> they eloped to be married in [[Hong Kong]] on 15 April 1988.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/author-anthony-horowitz-and-his-wife-jill-green-on-their-rollercoaster-courtship-plqc5jx6t |title=Author Anthony Horowitz and his wife, Jill Green, on their rollercoaster courtship |work=The Sunday Times |date=July 5, 2020 |first=Helen |last=Cullen |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 23, 2023 }}</ref> Green produced ''Foyle's War'', the series Horowitz wrote for [[ITV Network|ITV]], and other television shows he has written.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/kidspost/2006/05/17/meet-anthony-horowitz/db4214ac-564f-49df-b0e6-139b86813716/ |title=Meet Anthony Horowitz |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 17, 2006 |access-date=October 23, 2023 }}</ref> They have two sons. 

Horowitz credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research. He is a patron of family support charity Home-Start in Suffolk and child protection charity [[Kidscape]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kidscape.org.uk/info/staffpatronlist.asp |title=Kidscape Staff, Trustees, Patrons, Volunteers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524030923/http://www.kidscape.org.uk/info/staffpatronlist.asp |archive-date=24 May 2011 }}</ref>

Politically, Horowitz has described himself to be "vaguely [[Conservatism in the United Kingdom|conservative]]".<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Horowitz |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Horowitz |user=AnthonyHorowitz |number=447073029278150656 |date=21 March 2014 |title=@griffsimon Not sure I support any of them but vaguely conservative, I suppose. |language=en |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> Ahead of the [[2010 United Kingdom general election]], Horowitz stated he would vote for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in response to the policies of the governing [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], but "with little enthusiasm."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/anthony-horowitz-labour-has-done-all-it-can-to-demonise-our-children-1921044.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/anthony-horowitz-labour-has-done-all-it-can-to-demonise-our-children-1921044.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Anthony Horowitz: 'Labour has done all it can to demonise our|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=23 October 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2017, Horowitz expressed criticism of the notion of [[cultural appropriation]] after a publisher had allegedly tried to dissuade him from creating a black character as a central figure in one of his novels, and supported fellow author [[Lionel Shriver]]'s critiques on the same issue. He also criticised the social phenomenon of [[cancel culture]] and "mobbing" of figures for expressing diverse opinions, stating, "There is a rigidity in the way we have begun to think and speak. If we step outside certain lines on certain issues, we find not just people disagreeing, but disagreeing to the extent of death threats. When somebody says something untoward in the press, and I am not saying this about myself, people don't just say that was a stupid thing to say. They say, ''Lose your job.'' They want you to never ever have an income again."<ref name=Kean2017>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/anthony-horowitz-people-used-to-disagree-now-they-send-death-threats |title=Anthony Horowitz: 'People used to disagree. Now they send death threats' |work=The Guardian |date=27 August 2017 |first=Danuta |last=Kean |access-date=October 23, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/21/anthony-horowitz-i-was-warned-off-including-black-character|title=Anthony Horowitz: I was warned off including black character|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=21 May 2017}}</ref>

==Honours and awards==

Horowitz was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2014 New Year Honours]]<ref name=":0">{{London Gazette
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==Bibliography==
===Young adult novels===
====''[[Alex Rider]]'' series====
# ''[[Stormbreaker (novel)|Stormbreaker]]'' (2000)
# ''[[Point Blanc]]'' (2001; [[US]] title: ''[[Point Blanc|Point Blank]]'')
# ''[[Skeleton Key (novel)|Skeleton Key]]'' (2002)
# ''[[Eagle Strike]]'' (2003)
# ''[[Scorpia (novel)|Scorpia]]'' (2004)
# ''[[Ark Angel]]'' (2005)
# ''[[Snakehead (novel)|Snakehead]]'' (2007)
# ''[[Crocodile Tears (novel)|Crocodile Tears]]'' (2009)
# ''[[Scorpia Rising]]'' (2011)
# ''[[Russian Roulette (novel)|Russian Roulette]]'' (2013)
# ''[[Never Say Die (novel)|Never Say Die]]'' (2017)
# ''[[Nightshade (Horowitz novel)|Nightshade]]'' (2020)
# ''[[Alex Rider#Nightshade Revenge|Nightshade Revenge]]'' (2023)

====Short story collections====
#''Alex Rider: Secret Weapon'' (2019)
#''Alex Rider: Undercover'' (2020)

====Related works====
#''Alex Rider: The Gadgets'' (2005)
#''Alex Rider: Mission Files'' (2008)

====''[[The Power of Five]] (The Gatekeepers)'' series====
#''[[Raven's Gate]]'' (2005)
#''[[Evil Star (novel)|Evil Star]]'' (2006)
#''[[Nightrise]]'' (2007)
#''[[Necropolis (2008 novel)|Necropolis]]'' (2008)
#''[[Oblivion (Power of Five)|Oblivion]]'' (2012)

===Children's novels===

====''[[The Diamond Brothers|Diamond Brothers]]'' series====
#''[[The Falcon's Malteser]]'' (1986)
#''[[Public Enemy Number Two]]'' (1987)
#''[[South By South East]]'' (1991)
#''[[The Blurred Man]]'' (2003)
#''[[I Know What You Did Last Wednesday]]'' (2003)
#''[[The French Confection]]'' (2003)
#''[[The Greek Who Stole Christmas]]'' (2007)
#''[[The Diamond Brothers|Where Seagulls Dare]]'' (2022)

====Short stories====
#''[[The Diamond Brothers|The Double Eagle Has Landed]]'' (2011; published in ''Guys Read: Thriller'')

====''Horowitz Horror'' series====
#''[[Horowitz Horror]]'' (1999)
#''[[More Horowitz Horror]]'' (2001)
#''More Bloody Horowitz'' (2009; retitled as ''Bloody Horowitz'' in the [[United States]])<ref>Walker Books. {{ISBN|978-1-4063-1700-8}}.</ref>

====''Legends'' series====
#''Beasts and Monsters'' (2010)
#''Battles and Quests'' (2010)
#''Death and the Underworld'' (2011)
#''Heroes and Villains'' (2011)
#''The Wrath of the Gods'' (2012)
#''Tricks and Transformations'' (2012)

====''Groosham Grange'' series====
#''[[Groosham Grange]]'' (1988)
#''[[Return to Groosham Grange|The Unholy Grail]]'' (1999; later reissued as ''[[Return to Groosham Grange]]'')

====''Pentagram'' series====
#''The Devil's Door-Bell'' (1983)
#''[[The Night of the Scorpion]]'' (1985)
#''The Silver Citadel'' (1986)
#''Day of the Dragon'' (1989)

=== Standalone children's novels ===
#''The Sinister Secret of Frederick K. Bower'' (1979; reissued in 1985 as ''Enter Frederick K. Bower'')
#''Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet'' (1981)
#''Granny'' (1994)
#''The Switch'' (1996)
#''[[The Devil and His Boy]]'' (1998)

=== Other children's novels ===
#''Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man'' (1986; with [[Richard Carpenter (screenwriter)|Richard Carpenter]])
#''Adventurer'' (1987)
#''New Adventures of William Tell'' (1989)
#''Starting Out'' (1990)

=== Children's collections ===
#''Myths and Legends'' (1985)
#''The Kingfisher Book of Myths and Legends'' (2003)
#''[[Three of Diamonds (collection)|Three of Diamonds]]'' (2004)
#''[[Three of Diamonds (collection)|Four of Diamonds]]'' (2008)
#''The Complete Horowitz Horror'' (2008)
#''Midnight Feast'' (2011; with [[Meg Cabot]], [[Eoin Colfer]], [[Garth Nix]], [[Louise Rennison]] and [[Darren O'Shaughnessy|Darren Shan]])
#''RED'' (2012; with [[Cecelia Ahern]], [[Rachel Cusk]], [[Emma Donoghue]], [[Max Hastings]], [[Victoria Hislop]], [[Hanif Kureishi]], [[Andrew Motion]] and [[Will Self]])
#''Groosham Grange: Two Books in One!'' (2011)

===Anthologies (edited)===
#''The Puffin Book of Horror Stories'' (1994; reissued as ''Death Walks Tonight'' in 1995)

=== Graphic novels ===

====''[[The Power of Five]] graphic novels''====
#''[[The Power of Five]] 1: [[Raven's Gate]]'' (2010)
#''The Power of Five 2: [[Evil Star (novel)|Evil Star]]'' (2014)
#''The Power of Five 3: [[Nightrise]]'' (2014)

====''[[Alex Rider]]'' graphic novels====
#''[[Alex Rider]]: [[Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel|Stormbreaker]]''
#''Alex Rider: [[Point Blanc]]''
#''Alex Rider: [[Skeleton Key (novel)|Skeleton Key]]''
#''Alex Rider: [[Eagle Strike]]''
#''Alex Rider: [[Scorpia (novel)|Scorpia]]''
#''Alex Rider: [[Ark Angel]]'' <ref>{{Cite book|last1=Horowitz|first1=Anthony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiBrzQEACAAJ|title=Alex Rider Graphic Novel 6: Ark Angel|last2=Johnston|first2=Antony|date=May 2006|publisher=Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited|isbn=978-1-4063-4189-8}}</ref>

====Edge: Horowitz Graphic Horror====
#''The Phone Goes Dead'' (2010)
#''Scared'' (2010)
#''Killer Camera'' (2010)
#''The Hitchhiker'' (2010)

=== Adult novels ===

====[[Sherlock Holmes]] novels====
#''[[The House of Silk]]'' (2011)
#''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'' (2014)

=====Short stories=====
#''The Three Monarchs'' (2014; [[Ebook|eBook]])
#''The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards'' (2020; published in three parts in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', December 21–23)

====[[James Bond]] novels====
#''[[Trigger Mortis]]'' (2015)
#''[[Forever and a Day (novel)|Forever and a Day]]'' (2018)
#''[[With a Mind to Kill]]'' (2022)

====Susan Ryeland series====
#''[[Magpie Murders]]'' (2016)
#''[[Moonflower Murders]]'' (2020)
#''Marble Hall Murders'' (2025)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454828/marble-hall-murders-by-horowitz-anthony/9781529904345 | title=Marble Hall Murders | date= 10 April 2025}}</ref>

====Hawthorne and Horowitz series====
#''[[The Word Is Murder]]''  (2017)
#''[[The Sentence Is Death]]'' (2019)
#''[[A Line to Kill]]'' (2021)
#''[[The Twist of a Knife]]'' (2022)
#''[[Close to Death]]'' (2024)

=== Standalone adult novels ===
* ''Poisoned Pen'' (2002; never published in the [[UK]] but released as ''El asesinato de Shakespeare'' in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and ''William S.'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]])
* ''[[The Killing Joke (novel)|The Killing Joke]]'' (2004)

=== Novellas ===
* ''Vermeer to Eternity'' (2015; [[Kindle single]])

== Filmography ==
'''Film writer'''
* ''[[Just Ask for Diamond]]'' (1988)
* ''[[The Gathering (2003 film)|The Gathering]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Stormbreaker (film)|Stormbreaker]]'' (2006) (Also executive producer)

'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Writer
! Executive<br>Producer
! Creator
! Notes
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 5 episodes
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Boon (TV series)|Boon]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1987-1988
| ''[[Crossbow (TV series)|Crossbow]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 12 episodes
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| Episode "Back to Front"
|-
| 1989–1991
| ''[[Grim Tales]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1991–2001
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 11 episodes
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Chiller (TV series)|Chiller]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 2 episodes
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Murder Most Horrid]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 1 episode
|-
| 1997–2000
| ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 6 episodes
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Crime Traveller]]''
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 8 episodes
|-
| 2001–2003
| ''[[Murder in Mind (TV series)|Murder in Mind]]''
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 7 episodes
|-
| 2002–2015
| ''[[Foyle's War]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| 25 episodes
|-
| 2016
| ''[[New Blood (TV series)|New Blood]]''
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 7 episodes
|-
| 2020–2024
| ''[[Alex Rider (TV series)|Alex Rider]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| 24 episodes
|-
| 2022
| ''[[Magpie Murders]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| 6 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|2024
| ''[[Moonflower Murders (TV series)|Moonflower Murders]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 6 episodes 
|-
| ''[[Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| 6 episodes 
|-
|}

'''Miniseries'''
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Executive<br>Producer
! Creator
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Diamond Brothers: South by South East|The Diamond Brothers]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Collision (TV series)|Collision]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Injustice (British TV series)|Injustice]]''
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|}

== Theatre ==
{| class="wikitable"
! width="33"|Year
! width="225"|Title
! width="175"|Credit
! width="175"|Notes
|-
|1999
|''[[Mindgame (play)|Mindgame]]''
|Playwright
|Performed 1999, published 2000
|-
|2009
| ''A Handbag''
|Playwright
|Performed as part of the National Theatre Connections festival
|-
|2015
|''Dinner with Saddam''
|Playwright
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|25em}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
* {{official website |anthonyhorowitz.com}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0395275|name=Anthony Horowitz}}
* {{ISFDB name|5627}}
* [http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Anthony-Horowitz-1719.aspx Profile] at publisher [[Walker Books]]
* [http://thecommentary.ca/ontheline/198/ Audio interview regarding Snakehead novel]
* {{LCAuth|n80062674|Anthony Horowitz|55|ue}}
* [http://eurochannel.com/en/Interview-with-Anthony-Horowitz.html Interview with Antony Horowitz] on [[Eurochannel]]

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