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July 16, 2025 33 mins

There's been another MURDER in the 3rd editor Susan Ryeland / detective Atticus Pünd novel MARBLE HALL MURDERS. This week we tackle pages 200-407! Let's Solve the whodunnits within this fun book! Alan Conway is dead - long live Atticus Pünd who's brought back from the fictional dead as a continuation novel by failed author Eliot Crace, the grandson of famed deceased children's author, Miriam Crace. Susan needs work, so she's drafted to help the washed out Eliot turn his manuscript into a worthy entry in the Atticus Pund series. As Susan delves into the manuscript, she discovers uncanny parallels between the fictional world and real-life Crace family secrets.

This meta spin on a Golden Age Murder Mystery features several fair play puzzles that we can solve! 
Who killed Lady Margaret Chalfont?
Was she poisoned? How? Why? When?

00:00 Intro
00:55 Spoiler Warning
01:29 Overall thoughts up to page 300
01:52 Suspect Board Update #1
05:18 Spotlight 1955
07:13 Frederick Turner
09:09 Jonathan Crace
10:47 Roland Crace
11:42 Jerk Eliot Crace
12:02 Kenneth Rivers
13:10 Atticus Pund manuscript breakdown
13:50 Pharmacie Oddities
15:54 Alice Carling
18:15 Page 300-400 breakdown
18:45 Who wrote the Little People books?
20:52 R.I.P. Eliot Crace
19:45 Real-Life Killer Guess
20:52 Who killed Lady Chalfont Guess!
21:30 Suspect Board Update #2
22:58 Julia (Crace) Wilson
23:25 Adopted?
24:33 Who killed Alice?
25:56 Guessing the real-life killer!
30:10 Guessing the Pund novel killer!
33:00 Whodunnit?

"Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland #3)" is a novel by Anthony Horowitz, the third book in the Susan Ryeland series, featuring the character who edits the fictional detective Atticus Pünd. In this installment, Susan Ryeland is tasked with editing a continuation novel titled "Pünd's Last Case" written by Eliot Crace, who is also the grandson of a deceased children's author. Eliot believes his grandmother was murdered, and he's hidden clues about her death within his novel. As Susan delves into the manuscript, she discovers uncanny parallels between the fictional world and real-life Crace family secrets, ultimately leading her to become a target.

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Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz—another tribute to the golden age of Agatha Christie featuring detective Atticus Pund and editor Susan Ryland, stars of the New York Times bestsellers Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders. Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for Causton Books, she’s working on the manuscript of a novel, Pund’s Last Case, by a young author named Eliot Crace, a continuation of the popular Alan Conway series. Susan is surprised to learn that Eliot is the grandson of legendary children’s author Marian Crace, who died some fifteen years ago—murdered, Elliot insists, by poison. As Susan begins to read the manuscript’s opening chapters, the skeptical editor is relieved to find that Pund’s Last Case is actually very good. Set in the South of France, it revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, who, though mortally ill, is poisoned—perhaps by a member of her own family. But who did it? And why?

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