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Please note this book is written in Welsh Anthony Horowitzs life might have been copied from the pages of Charles Dickens or the Brothers Grimm. Born in 1956 in Stanmore, Middlesex, to a family of wealth & status, Anthony was raised by nannies, surrounded by servants & chauffeurs. His father, a wealthy businessman, was, says Mr. Horowitz, "a fixer for Harold Wilson." What that means exactly is unclear -- " My father was a very secretive man, " he says-- so an aura of suspicion & mystery surrounds both the word & the man. As unlikely as it might seem, Anthonys father, threatened with bankruptcy, withdrew all of his money from Swiss bank accounts in Zurich & deposited it in another account under a false name & then promptly died. His mother searched unsuccessfully for years in attempt to find the money, but it was never found. That too shaped Anthonys view of things. Today he says, "I think the only thing to do with money is spend it." His mother, whom he adored, eccentrically gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday. His grandmother, another Dickensian character, was mean-spirited & malevolent, a destructive force in his life. She was, he says, "a truly evil person", his first & worst arch villain. " My sister & I danced on her grave when she died, " he now recalls.