While Susan scours the manuscript for clues, because Alan was notorious for putting caricatures of real people in his stories for petty revenge, she begins having visions of and conversations with Atticus. What ensues are parallel mysteries, with some actors taking on dual roles, as the fictional Magpie (set in the 1950s), a traditional country-house puzzle, comes to life, and we meet Alan’s most enduring creation: Atticus Pünd ( Tim McMullan), a sly European sleuth whom even Hercule Poirot might respect. Related 'Miss Scarlet and the Duke' & 'Van der Valk': What's Next for the Sleuths of PBS
And if she can locate the last pages of his final opus, Magpie Murders, even better. But Susan takes it upon herself to play amateur snoop and get to the truth.
Worse news, the author soon turns up dead, a suspected - though suspicious - suicide.įew except the publishing house’s profit-minded investors are mourning the loss of the viciously temperamental Alan Conway ( Game of Thrones’ Conleth Hill), who resented his popular success. “Is there anything more useless than a whodunit without the ending?” barks veteran editor Susan Ryeland (the delightful Lesley Manville) when she discovers the latest manuscript by her most famous mystery writer is missing its final chapter. Anthony Horowitz ( Foyle’s War) adapts his bestselling novel, and if the TV version lacks some of the book’s formal brilliance and literary showmanship, it’s still a superior brainteaser. (Credit: Eleventh Hour Films/Nick Wall/PBS)Ī mystery lover’s delight, Magpie Murders is a whodunit wrapped in a whodunit, an homage to the genre’s most revered classics that adds clever twists of its own.
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