![]() Lesley Manville stars as Susan Ryeland, a London book editor who doesn't get along with her most important writer, Alan Conway. But where that earlier series was steeped in history, this lively new one is about the perils and pleasures of cleverness. These days, they've grown fond of what we can call the meta-mystery, the mystery about a mystery.Ī textbook example is Magpie Murders, PBS' new series on MASTERPIECE Mystery! It's based on the bestselling novel by Anthony Horowitz, who, among other things, created the excellent World War II detective show Foyle's War. ![]() Ever since Edgar Allan Poe created the modern detective story, mystery writers have sought ways to keep the genre exciting - dreaming up impossible crimes in locked rooms, setting murders in unexpected places, including medieval monasteries, South Korean military bases and cyberspace. ![]()
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