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. 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.”

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mp_sf_list_4_description:His Character: Patakis is a dissatisfied classics teacher as well as Susan Ryeland’s thoughtful boyfriend. He and author Alan Conway were once instructors at the same private school. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James, with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The Masterpiece Trust, created to help ensure the series' future. Where You’ve Seen Him: Logothetis’s television credits include Season 2 of The Durrells in Corfu on MASTERPIECE and the series The Island.Petski, Denise (21 July 2020). " 'Magpie Murders' Drama Series Adaptation Set On PBS' Masterpiece". Deadline Hollywood . 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.

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Interesting Fact: Magpie Murders’ author and executive producer Anthony Horowitz first encountered McMullan as he wrote episodes of the MASTERPIECE WWII detective series, Foyle’s War. “Tim was superb as [Arthur] Valentine and brought this really interesting spy I’d created to life, and so I was very happy when he was able to step in and take the part [of Atticus Pünd].” strong>Where You’ve Seen Him: Logothetis's television credits include Season 2 of The Durrells in Corfu on MASTERPIECE and the series The Island. Episode 2: Everyone he knew had reason to kill Alan Conway. But was his fatal fall actually murder? Does the missing chapter hold the secret? Praise for the novel centred upon its characters and the use of the story within a story. Some reviewers noted that the story within a story also made it difficult to keep up with the goings on. [14] [15] [16] Adaptation [ edit ]

mp_sf_list_0_description:Her Character: Magpie Murders revolves around Manville’s character Susan Ryeland, a book editor who reluctantly takes on the role of amateur sleuth. Ryeland is unconventional, a free spirit who makes her own rules about living life. mp_sf_list_1_description:His Character: Atticus Pünd is the beguiling and clever 1950s detective featured in Alan Conway’s fictional novels. He’s a compassionate gentleman; a German refugee of Greek-Jewish descent who survived the concentration camps. On the Role: “I play a lot of characters in my career who are sometimes quite a long way away from me [personally]…and I like that,” Manville tells MASTERPIECE. “But sometimes I sort of hanker to play something that’s a little bit closer to home and Susan feels like that. [This role] is taxing another side of my acting branches if you like. It’s refreshing and nice for me.” strong>Interesting Fact: Like her character in Magpie Murders, Manville is passionate about her career. As such, she’s advocated for her industry to offer as many acting roles to women over 45 as it does men. Manville signed the Acting Your Age Campaign’s petition along with fellow British actors Keeley Hawes (The Durrells in Corfu) and David Tennant (Around the World in 80 Days). “I want people to see older women as interesting, vibrant, with stories to tell. Not just appendages,” she tells the MASTERPIECE Studio podcast. She and Charles attend Alan’s funeral. Susan makes a list of potential murderers of Conway, including Claire, James, and Alan's ex-wife Melissa, a list she never shares. She sees a man with a fedora at the funeral; he wants to make a television adaptation of the Atticus Pünd mysteries.

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Hallemann, Caroline (23 July 2020). "The 'Magpie Murders' Is Being Made into a TV Show". Town & Country . Retrieved 7 October 2020. strong>On the Role: “I play a lot of characters in my career who are sometimes quite a long way away from me [personally]…and I like that,” Manville tells MASTERPIECE. “But sometimes I sort of hanker to play something that’s a little bit closer to home and Susan feels like that. [This role] is taxing another side of my acting branches if you like. It’s refreshing and nice for me.” Joy mentions that Mary disapproved of Joy and discouraged their marriage. They also tell the story of Tom, Robert’s brother, who was found drowned in the lake twelve years prior during a treasure hunt arranged by Sir Magnus, and Tom’s body was found by Brent.Eleventh Hour Founder and Magpie Murders exec Green said the show is “the most distinctive crime drama I’ve ever been involved with.” 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. Cha, Steph. " 'Magpie Murders' dishes up two tasty mysteries in one". USA TODAY . Retrieved 7 October 2020. The doctor reveals that Clarissa was the firstborn of twins. The entail of Pye Manor is to the first born child, not first born male child. Their father forced the doctor to record the boy as first born. This explains the cryptic phone message Sir Magnus left behind; the doctor called him from Ashton House, and said that the girl was born first, his sister. Anthony Horowitz has ventriloquised Ian Fleming in Trigger Mortis. He’s taken on Arthur Conan Doyle in The House of Silk. And very well too. In Magpie Murders, Horowitz tries something a little different: he pastiches the cosy country murder stories of Agatha Christie, setting his whodunnit in the sleepy 1950s English village of Saxby-on-Avon, where the widely disliked Mary Blakiston has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in Pye Hall, the grand house where she worked as a housekeeper.