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I read Anthony Horowitz's "Magpie Murders" after watching the TV series, and that was one of the few cases where I thought the program was much better than the book. The screenplay was also written by Horowitz, who is an old hand at that sort of thing (he wrote scripts for "Foyle's War" among many other programs). I think he was able to revisit the story and improve it on the second go. Rather than the cliche of the book author fighting every change tooth and nail, Horowitz embraced the chance to do modifications when translating to the different medium.
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