Susan returns to the office and finds the missing chapter of Magpie Murders.

Charles said he got the manuscript from Conway Thursday she was laid off Friday. However, she says the manuscript came on Wednesday morning. Jemima reiterated she copied the manuscript and checked the page count. Meanwhile, Alice mentions to Susan she ran into former co-worker Jemima ( Kate Gilmore) Susan gets her number and calls. It turns out it originated from Clover Books. The first letter of each title spells out “AN ANAGRAM,” with Magpie Murders as the final M.Īndreas gets a tech-savvy colleague to help him trace the email with the incriminating photo. Hannah agrees the title should be The Magpie Murders, not just Magpie Murders, as Alan insisted, prompting Susan to look closely at all the Atticus Pünd novel titles lo and behold, Alan’s penchant for wordplay rears its pretentious head. Meanwhile, Charles has moved to recruit a new CEO and hired author Sophie Hannah, who has written four new Poirot mysteries since 2014, to finish Conway’s book. Susan concedes defeat the chapter containing the resolution of Pünd’s case for the incomplete Magpie Murders manuscript is nowhere to be found. Once they meet with DI Chubb, they can return to London.

In the car, P ü nd declares Matthew has given him the last pieces of the puzzle. The elder Blakiston provides P ü nd with a few essential facts, including the ill-fated puppy, Bella, was a birthday present from Matthew to Sam and was presumably poisoned by Brent.Īs for the drowning of his dearest son, Matthew's retelling of events includes Robert rushing into the water to get to his little brother as Brent was carrying him from the lake. Meanwhile, flashing forward to 'the present day,' Pü nd and Fraser visit Matthew Blakiston, whose family was profoundly affected by the actions of Sir Magnus Pye. But when they arrive, Brent stands by suspiciously as the brothers come upon the poor pup dead in the woods. The Blakiston boys burst into the lodge house screaming to their mother that they can't find their dog Mary suggests they try Dingle Dell. In a change of pace, instead of the story starting in the real world, either present-day or a flashback, this week's finale begins by picking up where viewers last left off in 'reading' Conway's final novel, which itself is a flashback scene to seven years previous, just as the flashback scenes that opened Episodes 3 and 5 were. The final episode of Magpie Murdersis packed with revelations from the Alan Conway whodunit and the story of what happened to the author himself.

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