'Magpie Murders' is a hall-of-mirrors whodunit with a satisfying resolution

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‘Magpie Murders’ — a new PBS series — is a textbook example of a mystery about a mystery, writes critic John Powers.

. A nasty sort, Conway has grown rich writing novels about a 1950s detective named Atticus Pünd. As the show begins, he's just turned in his latest book, also titled. But there are two problems. The copy Susan receives is missing the final chapter in which Atticus Pünd solves the mystery. Even worse, Conway has been found dead in his country mansion in Suffolk.

Susan desperately tries to find the missing pages. Meeting with the people who know Conway, she soon grasps that his latest Pünd novel is populated with characters who are actually caricatures of— his sister, his ex-wife, his just-dumped boyfriend, his aggrieved gardener, and so forth. They all have reason to hate him. If ConwayAll of this makes the TV seriess something of a hall of mirrors.

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