Pünd’s Concluding Chapter

Americans who have wondered lately when the TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s third Susan Ryeland mystery, Marble Hall Murders, might finally be aired should be pleased to hear that PBS has scheduled its run to begin on Sunday, September 6.

This six-part presentation of Horowitz’s third and reportedly final Ryeland whodunit will bring back Lesley Manville as the book editor-cum-sleuth, with Tim McMullan again playing fictional detective Atticus Pünd. The story finds Ryeland shepherding into print a novel that relaunches the Atticus Pünd detective series, following the death (in Magpie Murders) of its creator, Alan Conway. This new author is Eliot Chace, troubled heir to the fortune of his grandmother Miriam, a renowned children’s book author. While Miriam’s long-ago death hadn’t appeared at all suspicious, Eliot raises doubts by centering his tale on the murder of a Miriam stand-in. The puzzle’s solution is in Eliot’s book, which imagines a newly retired Pünd called in to solve the slaying of Lady Margaret Chalfont, who had grown frightened of her husband. But before Susan can find the concealed solution, she becomes the prime suspect in another slaying.

A trailer for the coming series can be enjoyed here.