Using his powers of deduction and belief that nothing is as it seems, Creek races against time to uncover a number of intriguing clues which lead him to the unbelievable truth and the revealing of one of the greatest acts of illusion he has encountered yet. Jonathan and Maddy begin to realise that the man Kitty saw may not have even died in the first place. In addition to appearances in Medici and Versailles, he has appeared in several genre pieces including Midsomer Murders, Father Brown and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

A seemingly satanic powered individual, complete with hidden chamber, Surtees has the ability to apparently levitate his victims across the room (no strings attached) sending them from a cage and through the air into a fiery furnace.

However, when she publishes her autobiography, her cosmetic surgeon and ex-lover is outraged by what she says about him and threatens to sue her. The inquiry also turns up an old secret used to kill blasphemers in a castle owned by the film's producer. The only alternative suspect is the artist's wife who was well aware of his affair with another woman, but how could she have left her city office without her personal assistant seeing her leave?

Christmas special of the BBC crime drama starring Alan Davies as scruffy amateur detective and master of illusion Jonathan Creek.saw a further resurrection, ‘The Clue of the Savant’s Thumb’, but suddenly the duffle-coated mystery solver was no more. Guest stars: Ralph Brown as Roy Pilgrim, Rob Jarvis as Tex, Heather-Jay Jones as Tracy and Del Henney as Inspector Gibbins. How in the hell you can end up married to someone who is so keen to wipe from existence everything you were before meeting them and tell yourself this is a good thing is beyond me, and a weird narrative choice on Renwick’s part.

Since 1938, a number of people have disappeared from the attic of a Gothic mansion, owned originally by a spiritualist and now by his stage magician descendant. And with no closure in sight (outside of a final glimpse of the windmill), perhaps there’s life in the old duffel coat yet. This episode contains so many brilliant things – ominously creepy horror, distinctive characters, Holmesian deductions and quirky comedy. As for the mystery itself, some parts of it are a little bit contrived – but this is done in a knowingly theatrical way that is reminiscent of 1950s American horror comics or some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s more unusual detective stories (like “The Problem Of Thor Bridge”).For the main one you’ll have to check out my coded spoilers section below but I do like that the scenario Jonathan is investigating is not a conventional crime – at least at first. Wendell Wilkie ( Warwick Davis), Jonathan probes the case of a young woman named Alison Belkin ( Georgie Lord) whose mother and sisters died without explanation in a home famed for the unsolved deaths of many men a century earlier.