![]() One thing that Horowitz can do in a TV series that he can’t do in a novel is cast the same actors in multiple roles, playing characters in Susan’s story and in the Atticus Pünd story from the novel. But it doesn’t take long for her to become convinced that Alan’s death, which had been ruled a suicide, was actually the result of foul play. At first, Susan (Lesley Manville) is motivated more by professional concerns, since Alan turned in Magpie Murders with its final chapter missing. In the world of the TV series, Magpie Murders is the latest novel for Susan to edit by bestselling author Alan Conway (Conleth Hall), starring his popular detective character Atticus Pünd.Īs in the source novel, Magpie Murders switches between Susan’s efforts to determine who killed Alan, and the events of Alan’s novel Magpie Murders, in which Pünd (Tim McMullan) attempts to solve the murder of a wealthy landowner in 1955. ![]() In the real world, Magpie Murders is Horowitz’s first novel featuring Susan Ryeland, a book editor and amateur sleuth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who better to solve the murder of a murder mystery author than someone who has closely scrutinized all of his murder mysteries? That’s the clever concept of Anthony Horowitz’s novel Magpie Murders, as well as its new six-episode PBS adaptation, written by Horowitz himself. ![]()
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