Alan was never grateful or kind, even to his own sister. She helped him with his books, introducing him to Inspector Locke for advice on police matters Alan repaid that debt by putting Locke into the books as the bumbling Chubb. Claire had been his secretary, working for a low wage despite his wealth. Claire admits that she took the manuscript from Alan’s house and burned it, incensed by his cruel sketch of her as Clarissa Pye. Susan is thus brusque with Claire when she arrives to ask her about Magpie Murders.

Susan’s inner detective-Pünd-angers her as she drives to Claire’s house by suggesting that Andreas could have killed Alan for money. This reveals a lie: Andreas told Susan that he was rehearsing the school play Saturday night, when he must have gone to visit Alan instead. Alan was annoyed by the call: Andreas was going to visit to ask him for money, but Alan didn’t want to give him any. She asks James if he recognizes or knew Andreas, and James recalls that Alan spoke to Andreas on the phone. Susan is finding it difficult to concentrate, fretting as she is over Andreas. Alan’s sister Claire visited in the interim she could have taken it. James has remembered that he saw a copy of Magpie Murders in Alan’s home the day before he died, but that it disappeared. She needs to return to London and speak to him in person.īut she diverges from that goal when James calls her to Alan’s erstwhile home with new information. Her relationship with Andreas has already become tense due to her skepticism about moving to Crete with him and her discovery that he once dated Alan’s ex-wife. For example, a photo of Andreas grabbing Alan on the top of the tower at Alan’s home from which the writer fell and died. Susan and Atticus Pünd are narrowing down their suspects, discovering and sometimes dismissing motivations for murder as quickly as they come-but some things are not so easy to ignore. Keep up with your favorite dramas and mysteries by signing up for our newsletter, Dramalogue. Recap the previous and following episodes. Magpie Murders airs Sundays at 8:00 pm and is available to stream.

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