The New Statesman
•Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
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Anthony Horowitz’s adaptation of his novel of the same name, Magpie Murders , is a treat.
He's thrilled Anthony Horowitz has adapted its sequel, Moonflower Murders .
Lesley Manville plays Susan Ryeland , a liberated former editor in the 1950s .
Tim McMullan returns as Atticus Pünd, a refugee from Nazi Germany .
In her character’s espadrilles and leather jacket is low-key televisual equality: a recognition that in the 21st century , 60 really is no age at all. Moonflower Murders BBC iPlayer .
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English
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