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Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the first novel in the Susan Ryeland series. The story focuses on the murder of a mystery author and uses a story within a story format. The book has been translated into several languages and has been adapted into a six-part television drama series with the same title.
Anthony John Horowitz CBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the USA), and The Diamond Brothers series.
A version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of the children's TV show Magpie, which ran from 1968 to 1980. [11] The popularity of this version, performed by The Spencer Davis Group, is thought to have displaced the many regional versions that had previously existed. [12]
Anthony Horowitz's mystery-within-a-mystery novel becomes a hugely satisfying TV series starring Lesley Manville, premiering Sunday on PBS.
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Anthony Horowitz isn't in his blockbuster "Magpie Murders" universe with "Close," which is, instead, one of his meta-mysteries in which he is a key character. Horowitz is writing a book — the ...
The BBC then developed plans to produce a sequel series to Magpie Murders. [1] Author Anthony Horowitz adapted his book for the series himself, which is directed by Rebecca Gatward. [ 2 ] The six-part series is produced by Eleventh Hour Films and executive produced by Jill Green, and made in association with PBS’s Masterpiece , for whom the ...
The BBC's Magpie Murders sequel Moonflower Murders has confirmed its cast, with some new faces joining the original stars.