Set on a scenic river amid stunning Scottish lochs, Glasgow has an unusually high rate of slayings connected to water. She also helps out Hattie by looking into prospective marriage partners proposed by her socially ambitious aunt (Helen Norton, Cracks), conveniently finding scandals associated with all. The new season, which opens a few months after the conclusion of Season 1, presents a cavalcade of investigations, among them the search for a missing drawing by Charles Darwin, a murder that Eliza realizes mimics the plot of a mystery novel, a product-poisoning scheme, and a grave-robbing conspiracy. For his part, Duke is a natural-born crime-buster, destined for high office at Scotland Yard. In an era of corsets, bonnets and rigid patriarchy, Eliza Scarlet is England’s pioneer female private detective and a credit to her sex, since she is arguably the nation’s finest sleuth. The dueling detectives of Masterpiece’s Miss Scarlet and the Duke are back for a new season of intriguing cases set in Victorian-era London.

Conway’s editor, Susan Ryeland, is Horowitz’s narrator as she settles down to read her author’s latest: “You can’t beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn’t seen it from the start.Masterpiece’s three fall mysteries, Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 2, Magpie Murders and Annika, all come to a conclusion this weekend! Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Season 2 Blakiston’s death is a story within a story, the work of a crime novelist, one Alan Conway, whose vintage tales of murders solved by the wonderfully umlauted German detective Atticus Pünd regularly top the bestseller lists. In Magpie Murders, Horowitz tries something a little different: he pastiches the cosy country murder stories of Agatha Christie, setting his whodunnit in the sleepy 1950s English village of Saxby-on-Avon, where the widely disliked Mary Blakiston has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in Pye Hall, the grand house where she worked as a housekeeper.Įxcept he doesn’t really do this at all.

He’s taken on Arthur Conan Doyle in The House of Silk. Anthony Horowitz has ventriloquised Ian Fleming in Trigger Mortis.

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