MARLOW MURDER CLUB: SEASON 1, EPISODE 1

OMG - so you might have gathered, I'm a bit of a murder mystery fan ... I was going to say "buff" but I don't dive in all that deeply.

I watch/lisen to Agatha Christie quite a bit - I have several posts about the episodes I've seen on PBS ...

I like the BBC series of Grantchester ... oh wait, that's aPBS offering too ...

And then there's Ridley - a new one for me, seems to be set in either Ireland or such ... all the red-heads which show up in the show kind of give it away, but I'm likely wrong ...
Hmmmm .... that's also on PBS ....

Hubby and I used to watch Lovejoy back in the 1990s ... oh so long ago, but very good .... but that's gone off air .... never saw that on PBS though - it was on a cable network, A&E, I think ....

Then there's Sherlock Holmes, in most of it's incarnations (not a huge fan of Robert Downing Jr's take on it hough) .... but Basil Rathbone .... Cumberbatch (at least the first couple seasons, until Mrs. Watson goes all "spy" but that's more writers than anything) .... even Young Sherlock intrigued me ....

Every notice how much Poirot resembles Sherlock? Interesting ... Miss Lemon seems the only difference to me ... oh and the cases, of course.

So .... I have found a NEW .... at least to me - I know most of these shows turn up "across the pond" well before we get them ... so .... anyways ....

THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB

OMG - it has twirled me in from the start ... I'm thinking it is likely to have been a book series first ... it makes me feel as if they have taken Miss Marple and plopped her into he 21st century!

There're cell phones .... computers .... minivans ... dog walkers ... antique pistols, but only a few generations old .... it's quite inticing.

Let's start from the beginning ....

It opens underwater, yup, a canal which butts up against residenal areas - houses, not apartments.
How quaint - to have a trickling creek/brook/canal right outside your backdoor.

An elderly lady, well, 60-70ish, so not tthat much older than me, I guess ... she is doing a crossword puzzle - not one like we know - she appears to be making the grid for it herself, and when she's finished, she snaps a shot of it on her ipad type device and saves it as "July's Crossword".

While working on the puzzle - and this is what drew me in, such a little thing, really - she opens a tin of "Traveler's Sweets".  It took quite a while for it to click in, but once it did .... it connected me to this woman.

You see, when I was a kid ... like grade school .... my mother would pick up for me these little round tins of hard candies.
They were just a little bit of fun to keep in my pockets .... kind of like Altoids are now, but these were actual candies - sweets, not mints.

They were small enough to put in my pocket ... small enough to put in my purse for Sunday Mass .... but too large to get away with taking them to school - teacher's didn't allow us sweets until the week AFTER Halloween, but then we had to bring enough for everyone - and then they'd get annoyed if you actually did it1

There wasn't a lot of candy .... but whatt sweet memories.  I would use my empty tins to hold cough drops, since the crinkling of the plastic on the boxes, or the paper lining of the box, could annoy people.

What a different world we live in now ...

So - now I'm hooked .... even after this old lady goes skinny dipping out in the canal .... they don't show nothing, but still ... yuck ...

Her neighbor puts on some opera - very familiear, but I can't place it - and goes out to sit on a bench in his yard, under a tree, near the canal/brook/creek (not really sure which it is) .... leans back to relax and listen.

Then - BOOM - there's where he gets shot .... well, I've left a bit of detail out .... 

We then get introduced to:
--Miss Judith Potts, the elderly lady, used to be an archeologist, and now is retired
--the female police detective (don' recall her name) who is in charge of the investigation.  Potts deals with her quite a bit.
--the dog walker (don't remember her name eiher), she apparently was waiting for her daughter to visit, but the daughter decided to spend extra time with her dad - I'm sure this will become more significant as time moves along
-- the vicar's new wife, but they don' t say what happened to the old wife ... she has at least 2 step children who don't listen (typical teens) ... and her husband, the vicar, is absolutely dimwitted about everything tha's being piled upon her.
-- the there's people in the village ... the Village of Marlow ... an antiques dealer who is selling forgeries (Miss Potts poins it out), his receptionist, the gal at the place where the victim worked (I think she's a receptionist as well), etc.

You HAVE to see Episode 1 if you want to understand the characters and where they are coming from ....

Death Count so far in the series: 2

The dog walker, after pulling into a driveway of a client, gets off a Facetime call with her daughter who just told her Mom she's not going to be coming home for a bit longer ... the walker then goes up to the client's door, finding it open - and NO DOG - she goes in to make sure he is okay ... and finds him dead.

So the question is .... what do an art seller and this client have in common??

Why were they killed ...

Why does Miss Potts need a posse??

More to come!

You've got to see this new series though ...

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