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Magpie Murders

SERIES PREMIERE

Sunday, Oct. 16, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)

A MYSTERY LOVER’S delight, Magpie Murders is a whodunit wrapped in a whodunit, an homage to the genre’s most revered classics that adds clever twists of its own. Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War) adapts his bestselling novel, and if the Masterpiece Mystery! TV version lacks some of the book’s formal brilliance and literary showmanship, it’s still a superior brainteaser.

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