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    Review: 'Magpie Murders' has everything you want in a British mystery

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2022 3 minutes
    From left, Lesley Manville as Susan Ryeland and Timothy McMullan as Atticus Pünd in "Magpie Murders."

    Before the streaming warriors mined the world for content, British television made its way into the American living room almost exclusively by way of PBS and its affiliates. "Masterpiece Theater" was the network's home for literary adaptations and classy historical dramas, and "Mystery!" the place for the … mysteries.

    Those venues now share prime time as "Masterpiece" and "Masterpiece Mystery!" whose latest presentation, which premiered Sunday, is "Magpie Murders," adapted by Anthony Horowitz ("Foyle's War," "Midsomer Murders"), from his own 2016 novel. It's a tightly plotted, handsomely presented, smartly acted,

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