Magpie Murders

79
Metascore
2022-2022
1 season
PBS
Suspense, Drama
TV-14

A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot of Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.

79
Metascore
2022-2022
1 season
PBS
Suspense, Drama
TV-14

Season 1 Episode Guide

6 Episodes 2022

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Thu, Feb 10, 2022 44 mins

Crime writer Alan Conway is finishing his next bestseller. The editor Susan is delighted, but when he dies suddenly and leaves behind a suicide note and an unfinished manuscript, she becomes suspicious. The future of the publisher and her own depend on him. Why is the last chapter missing? Why are there great similarities between the script's fictional characters and Alan's circle of friends?

Episode 2

Episode #1.2

Sun, Oct 23, 2022 44 mins

Two deaths. In the script, Sir Magnus Pye is murdered in 1955. In the present, the script's author dies. How does it add up? Susan travels to Woodbridge to look for the answer - but most of all the missing chapter. Alan used his own house, Abbey Grange, as the setting for Pye Hall. And as with Sir Magnus Pye, there are a host of possible perpetrators if Alan Conway didn't commit suicide.