
Masterpiece, BBC to solve Marble Hall Murders
PBS Masterpiece in the US has ordered Marble Hall Murders, a sequel to Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders once again based on a novel by Anthony Horowitz. The BBC has acquired the series for the UK.
Lesley Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) returns as Susan Ryeland, a book editor who all too often finds herself involved in baffling murders. Returning to England, she is reluctantly drawn into a new Atticus Pünd mystery, this time written by a new, young writer. Pünd’s Last Case is a story set in 1955, in an exotic villa in Corfu – but the identity of a real killer is hidden in the text, and once again Susan is going to find herself in grave danger.
Tim McMullan (Patrick Melrose) also reprises his role as Atticus Pünd, the literary detective who steps out of the books to help Susan unravel the real-life mystery of who killed Miriam Crace, the most famous children’s author in the world.
Maville and McMullan are pictured top in Moonflower Murders.
Marble Hall Murders will film in March in Dublin, Corfu and London. Also returning are Rebecca Gatward to direct and Suzanne McAuley as producer.
It will be made by Eleventh Hour Films in association with Salt Films for PBS Masterpiece and the BBC. The drama is executive produced by Jill Green and Eleventh Hour Films and written by Horowitz based on his novel of the same name, which is the third and final instalment in his Susan Ryeland trilogy.
It is distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television and PBS Distribution in North America.
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