MARBLE HALL MURDERS: MASTERPIECE PBS

MASTERPIECE on PBS announced the commissioning of Marble Hall Murders, an adaptation of the third and final installment in best-selling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. This is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, which premiered on MASTERPIECE in 2022 and 2024, respectively. Lesley Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) and Tim McMullan (The Crown, Patrick Melrose) will reprise their roles. 

Anthony Horowitz said: “I’m so happy to bring the team back – stars, director, producers and crew – for a third instalment of what has been a fantastically successful TV series. I have a feeling this could be the best yet.” 

This series sees Lesley Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) return as Susan Ryeland, a book editor who all too often finds herself involved in baffling murders. Returning to England, she is reluctantly drawn into a new Atticus Pünd mystery, this time written by a new, young writer. “Pünd’s Last Case” is a story set in 1955, in an exotic villa in Corfu – but the identity of a real killer is hidden in the book and once again Susan is going to find herself in grave danger. 

Tim McMullan (Patrick Melrose, The Crown) reprises his role as Atticus Pünd, the literary detective who steps out of the books to help Susan unravel the real-life mystery. Who killed Miriam Crace, the most famous children's author in the world? 

The series will begin filming in March in Dublin, Corfu and London. Additional cast to be announced at a later date. Marble Hall Murders is a co-production of Eleventh Hour Films for MASTERPIECE and the BBC in association with Salt Films, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television and by PBS Distribution in North America.