Women of Mystery

Female sleuths rule the MASTERPIECE Mystery line-up beginning Sunday, Oct. 16th.


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16!

What do Kate PhillipsLesley Manville, and Nicola Walker have in common? Their characters are all kicking crime, taking names, and cracking cases, and their shows/seasons all have their broadcast premiere the same night on MASTERPIECE Mystery!  Watch a preview of all three shows right now!

7PM

Miss Scarlett and The Duke Season 2
Victorian London’s most delicious detective duo-with-a-twist returns to MASTERPIECE for Season 2. In six high-octane new episodes, aspiring detective Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips, Peaky Blinders) competes for cases, trades jabs, and even partners with her longtime friend/rival, The Duke (Stuart Martin, Jamestown), as their relationship delightfully and maddeningly simmers on.

 

8PMMagpie Murders
Lesley Manville (World on FireThe CrownMrs. Harris Goes to Paris) stars, and murder and mayhem go meta, in this clever and suspenseful mystery-within-a-mystery adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling book by the author himself.

 

9PMAnnika Season 1
Unforgotten‘s Nicola Walker has traded in cold cases for maritime murders as DI Annika Strandhed in the unconventional a new police procedural Annika. Juggling enigmatic cases while trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter, the droll and dry-witted DI and skipper of Glasgow’s newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit drops literary references, breaks the fourth wall, and keeps viewers riveted through twists and turns galore.

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