Marble Hall Murders

“The actors play two sets of characters, across three different post-war eras, committing a pair of almost identical murders – to dizzying effect. Never mind trying to work out whodunnit. I spent the first hour asking whenwozzit and who’zatden? The one constant is Lesley Manville as brisk, unsentimental book doctor Susan, whose job is to take messy manuscripts and rewrite them so that the plots make sense.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Is there a more joyous and enthusiastic celebration of classic British crime fiction than the Atticus Pünd/Susan Ryeland stories? Anthony Horowitz’s twisty, multilayered, multi-timelined set of mysteries that revel in just about every tradition, trope, and custom — call it what you like — of the genre? It has anxious maids, grumpy dowager duchesses, the clack of typewriters, and in the homburg-wearing Pünd himself, a meticulously dressed foreigner (where have we met one of those before?) beautifully played on screen by Tim McMullan.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“Nobody wants their cosy crime dramas to be moronic. The Hairdresser Mysteries on BBC Daytime is a case in point. But Marble Hall Murders, the third in a trilogy from Anthony Horowitz, strays too far in the opposite direction. It’s a clever work of metafiction, and while that might have made for a satisfying book, in a TV series it’s hard work. The series began with Magpie Murders (2022), followed by Moonflower Murders (2024), but this is the least enjoyable of the three. The underlying problem is the dual timelines, which makes everything feel complicated and prevents the viewer from fully engaging with one storyline because it’s constantly being interrupted by the other.”
Anita Singh, Telegraph