The Crown's Lesley Manville stars in first-look trailer for Magpie Murders detective series:
The series has been adapted from the 2016 book by Anthony Horowitz, which was described as"an ingenious novel within a novel".
The show is a murder mystery within a murder mystery, which takes place in two time periods, both the 1950s and contemporary Britain, and sees the cast portraying multiple characters in different literary dimensions.Manville stars as Susan Ryeland, the editor for infamous bestselling mystery writer Alan Conway .
When Susan receives an unfinished Conway manuscript, featuring his hugely popular detective Atticus Pünd without any sign of the author himself, she is set on a path with little idea that it will change her life forever. The six-part series also stars Tim McMullan, Daniel Mays, Pippa Haywood and Michael Maloney, and is directed by Peter Cattaneo.
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