A Most Mysterious Murder

Season 1

Dramatised accounts of five unsolved murders from British history. Julian Fellowes appears as a historical detective who guides the audience through the events leading up to the murder, and proposes a solution to each case.

Where to Watch Season 1

6 Episodes

  • The Case of Charles Bravo
    E1
    The Case of Charles Bravo1876. The money-grubbing young barrister Charles Bravo marries a wealthy widow whose previous husband had died under suspicious circumstances. Charles Bravo turns out to be a wife-beater. When he winds up dead from antimony poisoning, suspicion falls on the wife. Others implicated include her long-time devoted lover Dr James Gully, her companion Mrs Cox and her former coachman whom the intemperate Charles had earlier sacked.
  • The Case of George Harry Storrs
    E2
    The Case of George Harry Storrs1909. The wealthy married industrialist George Harry Storrs has an affair with a Swiss Governess Maria Hohl. She ends up commiting suicide. Threatening letters appear against Storrs. He receives round-the-clock police protection. Storrs winds up dead anyway. Who killed him and why?
  • The Case of Rose Harsent
    E3
    The Case of Rose HarsentIn the tight knit Methodist community in Peasenhall, a newly arrived young servant-girl, Rose Harsent begins a torrid affair with a married man and church reader. She is then found stabbed to death. It is revealed that she is pregnant. Was it her married lover, the jealous wife, a jealous boyfriend or some other aggrieved member of the community?
  • The Case of the Croydon Poisonings
    E4
    The Case of the Croydon Poisonings1929. Three members of a respectable middle-class family, all living along the same street, die one after the other. The first two deaths are incompetently put down to "natural causes" by the local quack. But the third starts to cause a scandal. Exhumations reveal arsenical poisoning in all three. Who among the remaining members or close associates was the murderer?
  • The Case of the Earl of Erroll
    E5
    The Case of the Earl of Erroll1941. The 22nd Earl of Erroll is found murdered with a bullet through the head along the Nairobi-Ngong road at the outbreak of WW2. Was it the the cuckolded Sir Jock Broughton who pulled the trigger, or his young social-climbing wife? Or was it one of the Earl's many ex-lovers or their aggrieved husbands? Or was the indiscreet Earl a victim of a political assasination by British authorities?
  • The Making of A Most Mysterious Murder
    E6
    The Making of A Most Mysterious Murder

Cast of Season 1

  • Julian Fellowes
  • Christina Cole
  • Michael FassbenderCharles Bravo
  • David Calder
  • Stella Gonet
  • David Schofield
  • Nadia Cameron-Blakey
  • Delyth ThomasDirector

 

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