Jonathan Creek

When a comedian is found dead inside a fallout shelter, all clues point to suicide - but Maddy Magellan thinks otherwise and calls on the services of Jonathan Creek

When a comedian is found dead inside a fallout shelter, all clues point to suicide - but Maddy Magellan thinks otherwise and calls on the services of Jonathan Creek

The story follows a teenage girl who, driven by her admiration for a popular singer, decides to travel to his home in the hope of meeting him face‑to‑face. After she arrives, she disappears and never returns. Several people who were nearby claim they saw her walk into the pop star’s house that night, and their accounts fuel speculation about what might have occurred inside. The singer, however, insists he had no involvement in her disappearance and repeatedly declares his innocence, maintaining that he didn’t harm her in any way. With only the conflicting eyewitness statements to go on, the mystery of her vanishing remains unsolved.

The story follows a teenage girl who, driven by her admiration for a popular singer, decides to travel to his home in the hope of meeting him face‑to‑face. After she arrives, she disappears and never returns. Several people who were nearby claim they saw her walk into the pop star’s house that night, and their accounts fuel speculation about what might have occurred inside. The singer, however, insists he had no involvement in her disappearance and repeatedly declares his innocence, maintaining that he didn’t harm her in any way. With only the conflicting eyewitness statements to go on, the mystery of her vanishing remains unsolved.

The quiet of a private study is shattered when the corpse of a distinguished scientist is found, his body impaled on a samurai sword. The room is locked from the inside, and the presence of the exotic blade seems out of place, prompting a puzzling dilemma. Jonathan steps onto the scene, charged with untangling the mystery. He must sift through the limited clues to determine if the scientist met a violent end at someone’s hands or if he orchestrated an elaborate suicide, using the sword as a dramatic final act. The case hinges on minute details, such as the angle of the blade and the lock’s mechanism, which Jonathan must scrutinise.

The quiet of a private study is shattered when the corpse of a distinguished scientist is found, his body impaled on a samurai sword. The room is locked from the inside, and the presence of the exotic blade seems out of place, prompting a puzzling dilemma. Jonathan steps onto the scene, charged with untangling the mystery. He must sift through the limited clues to determine if the scientist met a violent end at someone’s hands or if he orchestrated an elaborate suicide, using the sword as a dramatic final act. The case hinges on minute details, such as the angle of the blade and the lock’s mechanism, which Jonathan must scrutinise.

On Halloween night a celebrated gothic horror author is discovered dead, his body bearing the hallmarks of a gruesome killing. The shock of the writer’s murder pulls investigators Maddy and Jonathan into a chilling underworld where the ordinary gives way to the grotesque. They find themselves surrounded by pantomime skeletons that dance in eerie silence, confronted with the unsettling notion of reincarnation, and forced to confront a trail of severed heads that hint at a ritualistic motive. As the duo delves deeper, the boundary between performance and reality blurs, drawing them ever further into a nightmarish realm that mirrors the writer’s own dark imagination.

On Halloween night a celebrated gothic horror author is discovered dead, his body bearing the hallmarks of a gruesome killing. The shock of the writer’s murder pulls investigators Maddy and Jonathan into a chilling underworld where the ordinary gives way to the grotesque. They find themselves surrounded by pantomime skeletons that dance in eerie silence, confronted with the unsettling notion of reincarnation, and forced to confront a trail of severed heads that hint at a ritualistic motive. As the duo delves deeper, the boundary between performance and reality blurs, drawing them ever further into a nightmarish realm that mirrors the writer’s own dark imagination.

Maddy and Jonathan take on the puzzling case of a businessman who’s terrified of every watch and clock he encounters. Despite his intense phobia, the man seems to have somehow slipped beyond the ordinary constraints of time itself, prompting the duo to probe the strange circumstances surrounding his apparent defiance of temporal law. Their investigation centres on uncovering how his fear intertwines with this uncanny ability, and whether any rational explanation can be found for a situation that appears to bend the very fabric of chronology.

Maddy and Jonathan take on the puzzling case of a businessman who’s terrified of every watch and clock he encounters. Despite his intense phobia, the man seems to have somehow slipped beyond the ordinary constraints of time itself, prompting the duo to probe the strange circumstances surrounding his apparent defiance of temporal law. Their investigation centres on uncovering how his fear intertwines with this uncanny ability, and whether any rational explanation can be found for a situation that appears to bend the very fabric of chronology.