MAGPIE MURDERS IS A BRISK, DEXTEROUS MURDER MYSTERY ABOUT THE FUN OF READING

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https://crimereads.com/magpie-murders-is-a-brisk-dexterous-murder-mystery-about-the-fun-of-reading/

Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz’s profoundly literary meta-mystery novel from 2016, might not seem like an obvious choice for adaptation to a television series. So much about the novel is about the practice of reading. The story begins when a book editor named Susan Ryeland presents a strange event that changed her life: a mystery that came to her attention when she read the manuscript of a new mystery novel called Magpie Murders. That mystery manuscript is unfinished, though, which means Susan has to go and hunt for the answer herself. But that novel also contains the clues to a real-life mystery, and it is up to Susan (and her own readers) to dig them out and connect them to the real-life circumstance. Horowitz’s Magpie Murders is pure pleasure—a beguiling and refreshing experiment with the traditional murder mystery genre that follows the rules while also taking on an entirely new dimension.

Horowitz himself wrote the script for the new television adaptation of the book. Fortunately, he, a veteran of TV whodunits (having created the Midsomer Murders series back in 1997) as well as the author of numerous detective series, knows how to tell a murder mystery differently, depending on form and media. And so the television incarnation of Magpie Murders, which premieres in the US on Masterpiece Mystery on PBS on Sunday, October 16th, doesn’t change the game so much as change the sport.

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