Marble Hall Murders – Atticus Pund Is Back!

The useful part

Elliot is the grandson of legendary children's author Miriam Crace, and is clearly a deeply flawed character who has already failed as an author once. What becomes clear is that Elliot's book may be based on his own family, and a murder much closer to home than the one he sets on a Greek island. Horowitz books are an absolute joy with their story within a story premise, and the TV series have certainly done them justice.

How it works

• In this final flowering, Marble Hall Murders, Susan is still working freelance having moved back to London, and is tasked with editing a returning author, Elliot Crace, on a continuation novel that...
• I love that this book is looking at a continuation novel, particularly fitting in the week that Lucy Foley has published a new Miss Marple novel.
• As Pund has a certain resemblance to Poirot, I love the continued parallels with Agatha Christie and her books.
• As Susan reads his first chapters, Atticus Pund is there to act as her guide, almost telling her to steer clear of entering this literary world again.
• There is also an exceptional support cast, many playing two roles – in the Pund book and in the present.

What to take from it

These include Patricia Hodge, Mark Bonnar, Rupert Penry Jones and Amelia Bullimore.

Details worth keeping

Saturday night was one of the most anticipated for my TV viewing self. This is top quality Saturday night television like I remember as a child.