mp_sf_list_0_description: If you love mysteries, you'll doubly love this one! A whodunit within a whodunit, and both mysteries will keep you guessing all along. Her boss Charles offers her the job as head of Cloverleaf Books as Charles is retiring. Andreas asks her to run the hotel in Crete with him. EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Horowitz believes his upcoming Magpie Murdersadaptation is “the first time I’ve really got it right,” and has stated he will no longer write on classic TV murder mysteries. Petski, Denise (21 July 2020). " 'Magpie Murders' Drama Series Adaptation Set On PBS' Masterpiece". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 7 October 2020. Episode 4: The puzzle pieces of Alan’s death get more jumbled. Meanwhile, the plot of his new book and the lives of his acquaintances start to converge.

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On the Role: Pünd is reminiscent of other great detectives from literature but McMullan strove to make him unique. “I thought, playing a German, I want to make him very soft-voiced and un-Germanic,” the actor tells The New York Times. “A gentle character who has been in a labor camp and has a very empathetic perspective on the human condition.”MAGPIE MURDERS: Creator and executive producers on new PBS series – Exclusive Interview". Assignment X. 16 October 2022 . Retrieved 31 October 2022. In July 2020 Deadline announced that PBS's Masterpiece would adapt the novel into a six-part drama series and air it in the US, and on BritBox in the UK. [17] Horowitz was to prepare the script and Masterpiece was to produce it along with Jill Green and Eleventh Hour Films. [18] [19] Tim McMullan was signed to portray the character of Atticus Pünd after actor Timothy Spall pulled out of the production due to scheduling issues. [20] Lesley Manville agreed to play the other central character, Susan Ryeland, who has a more significant role in the series than in the book. Daniel Mays appears as the local police detective, Alexandros Logothetis as Susan's lover and Claire Rushbrook as her sister. Jude Hill and Matthew Beard were also part of the series' cast. [21] And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened. She hailed “the way it weaves a mystery inside a mystery with a ‘meta story’ about crime writing over the top,” along with its “playful tone.”

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strong>Where You’ve Seen Him: Beard has already had roles in two Oscar-nominated films. He played the shy schoolmate Graham to Carey Mulligan’s Jenny in 2009’s An Education as well as mathematician Peter Hilton in 2014’s The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s been nominated twice for Most Promising Newcomer awards in the UK. Beard’s TV credits include PBS’s Vienna Bloodand Avenue 5. Writer Alan Conway has finished his latest mystery novel, but when he meets an untimely end, it is left to his editor Susan Ryeland to uncover the truth. The characters and puzzling plot in Conway's novel come to life, and so do an array of modern people who surrounded Conway in real life. Are there any connections between these two worlds? Where You’ve Seen Him: Maloney has had roles in many a British TV series, from a character in Season 3 of All Creatures Great and Small on MASTERPIECE to Midsomer Murders, and The Crown. His film credits include The Young Victoria and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Henry V. Some secrets are revealed: Johnny Whitehead had been in prison for theft; the silver was sold to him by Brent, who found it on the lawn; Dianna Weaver wrote the threatening message to Sir Magnus; a bottle of poison was stolen from the doctor’s office by Clarissa when she was considering suicide.

Kersey: Village pub thrown a 'lifeline' by Magpie Murders series". BBC News. 6 February 2022 . Retrieved 30 October 2022. strong>Interesting Fact: His father is the known Greek actor Helias Logothetis and his mother the crime fiction author Eftychia Kalliteraki. The parents were divorced when Alexandros was a child, and he was raised by his mom. He tells Greek City Times that “the reason I became an actor was that I wanted to be closer to my father.” Review: Anthony Horowitz's 'Magpie Murders' Is Catnip for Classic Mystery Lovers". Time . Retrieved 7 October 2020. Afterwards, Pünd meets up with James, Detective Inspector Chubb, Robert Blakiston and Joy Sanderling and explains that Mary Blakiston’s death was accidental. Matthew Blakiston called his wife at Pye Hall that day. In her effort to answer the phone downstairs, Mary got tangled in the vacuum cleaner cord on the upper floor, resulting in her tripping, falling down the stairs, and dying.