Magpie Murders

2022 - 2022

Episode 1

10th February 2022

Episode 1

Editor Susan Ryeland is eagerly awaiting the manuscript from Clover Books' number one best-selling author Alan Conway, whose hero Atticus Pünd regularly solves murder mysteries in the fictional village of Saxby on Avon. Susan is drawn into her own mystery when she and her boss realise that the final chapter is missing and Conway is found dead in his shrubbery.

Episode 2

10th February 2022

Episode 2

Staying with her sister Katie while searching for the missing last chapter, Susan visits Abbey Grange, the grand home of Alan Conway, where she discovers that his notes are also missing. Meanwhile, Atticus Pünd and his faithful assistant Fraser are in Saxby on Avon investigating the murder of Sir Magnus Pye.

Episode 3

10th February 2022

Episode 3

Susan finds herself under pressure to make decisions as CityWorld need to know if she wants to be CEO, but Andreas wants to go back to Crete. She is still determined to find the missing last chapter of Alan Conway's book, and her suspicions are further aroused about his untimely end.

Episode 4

10th February 2022

Episode 4

As Susan and Charles attend the funeral of Alan Conway, his creation Atticus Pünd and his faithful secretary Fraser are also attending the funeral of Sir Magnus Pye. Much to Susan's horror, she realises that her world and Conway's fiction have more in common than mere coincidence.

Episode 5

10th February 2022

Episode 5

Susan confronts Andreas about the incriminating photograph that has been e-mailed to her. In Saxby on Avon, Atticus Pünd assists Inspector Chubb in the investigation of the murders of Mary Blakiston and Magnus Pye by suggesting that police divers search the lake.

Episode 6

10th February 2022

Episode 6

Susan is put under more pressure by Charles, who tells her that he has approached someone else for the CEO job at Clover Books, but she is seemingly no closer to finding the missing chapter. Atticus Pünd is confident that he has at last discovered the identity of the Saxby on Avon murderer.

Top Cast

Lesley Manville•Tim McMullan•Nia Deacon

Director

Peter Cattaneo

Writer

Anthony Horowitz

Drama Mystery Crime

An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

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Full Cast

Lesley Manville Image

Lesley Manville

Susan Ryeland

Tim McMullan Image

Tim McMullan

Atticus Pünd

Nia Deacon Image

Nia Deacon

Joy Sanderling

Conleth Hill Image

Conleth Hill

Alan Conway

Daniel Mays Image

Daniel Mays

Locke / Chubb

Alexandros Logothetis Image

Alexandros Logothetis

Andreas Pataki

Harry Lawtey Image

Harry Lawtey

Robert Blackiston

Matthew Beard Image

Matthew Beard

James Taylor / Fraser

Dorothy Atkinson Image

Dorothy Atkinson

Lady Frances Pye

Claire Rushbrook Image

Claire Rushbrook

Katie Williams

Pippa Haywood Image

Pippa Haywood

Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye

Michael Maloney Image

Michael Maloney

Charles Clover

Sanjeev Kohli Image

Sanjeev Kohli

Sajid Khan / Dr Kamal

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Anthony Horowitz Image

Anthony Horowitz

Novel

Anthony Horowitz Image

Anthony Horowitz

Writer

Peter Cattaneo Image

Peter Cattaneo

Director

Cristina Pulber

Production Coordinator

Stephen Hall Image

Stephen Hall

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