He expanded the character of Conway after Hill was cast in the role (“he is so vile and entertaining”), and created a new history for Susan. It took “many, many drafts,” Horowitz said. Green said she felt strongly that for television, the narratives should be interwoven, and that Susan’s story be “more complex and personal.” In the novel, the 1955 tale comes first, then the narrative switches to a contemporary time frame. Harris Goes to Paris.” In “Magpie Murders,” Manville stars as Susan, an intelligent and witty editor at Clover Books, a small publishing house with one star author: the unlikable Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), whose Atticus Pünd series has made him famous and rich. “The plot is so detailed and cleverly constructed that only Anthony could have picked it apart and put it back together,” said Lesley Manville, who is set to appear as Princess Margaret in a new season of “The Crown” and is the heroine of the new film “Mrs.

The six-part series, which debuts in the United States on PBS’s “Masterpiece” on Sunday, is based on the novel of the same name by Anthony Horowitz, who also adapted it for television. And she is returning from Saxby, where she was searching for the missing final chapter of the book in which Pünd solves the crime.Ĭonfused? It’s one of the many meta moments in “Magpie Murders,” a Russian doll murder mystery that sets a 1950s fictional detective story inside a contemporary inquiry into the death of the author who wrote it. The car is driven by Susan Ryeland, who inhabits an entirely different world - the present. A bright red MG sports car zips by, and Pünd nods to himself with a slight smile. The great detective Atticus Pünd is heading to the picturesque fictional Suffolk village of Saxby-on-Avon to investigate a murder.

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