![]() ![]() And of course, it's human frailty that that gives rise to the mistakes that people make which lead them to commit crimes. "I felt that when when he gets to the point of working out who did it – which of course is a great achievement and an intellectual satisfaction for him – it is almost more in sorrow and pity than in anger. "He's a gentle soul, but who has this tenacity to get to the truth of things," he continued. ![]() ![]() He's wounded by his experiences, haunted by his experiences, but he's very dignified. "He's been in German labor camp during the war and then he comes to England as a refugee and sets up as a private detective in the style of Poirot and other private detectives that we know," said McMullan. The detective seems unflappable, perhaps influenced by his past. ![]() As Susan reads her book, onscreen we see how Atticus gets pulled into investigating two deaths that may or may not be related. In the tradition of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, German refugee Atticus Pünd brings a unique outsider flavor to the very English mystery set in the 1950s. Murder, she edited: In PBS' "Magpie Murders," Lesley Manville is a publishing world mystery sleuth ![]()
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