![]() ![]() It’s good timing, and Charles mentions next week’s buyout meeting, where Citywide Media will want an answer to the generously compensated promotion on offer. While Ryeland was out, her boss, Charles Clover ( Michael Maloney), reports Conway finally delivered the completed Magpie Murders to him over dinner the previous night. She took off a day from teaching ancient Greek in a fancy London school to surprise her for the weekend. After a little flirty roleplay, we learn the waiter is Susan’s boyfriend, Andreas Pataki ( Alexandros Logothetis). ![]() After a hard day of tough negotiating and fending off unwanted advances, a waiter comes to Susan’s hotel room door with champagne she didn’t order. Oblivious to Conway’s frustrations, his editor, Head of Fiction at Clover Books Susan Ryeland ( Lesley Manville), is off at the Frankfurt Book Fair, promoting her star client’s mystery series. (Think Poirot, but German rather than Belgian.) Once the novel is completed, Conway snaps his fountain pen, splattering ink across the page. PBS’ newest mystery series, Magpie Murders, opens with a montage of Alan Conway Conleth Hill) struggling to produce chapter after chapter in his latest whodunit in the wildly popular Atticus Pünd series. ![]()
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