Set in the 1920s, Mrs Bradley drives the whodunit' out of the drawing room: rich, stylish, sexy and dripping with glamour, she solves these intriguing, ingenious crimes with a mixture of psychoanalytic and detective powers and George's willingness to get completely immersed in the investigation even if it means baring all.
Enlivening the suspense of each investigation are Mrs Bradley's tongue-in-chic' asides to camera. A very modern woman and a keen student of Freud, she is happy to offer an insight on almost any subject, from men to murder.
In Speedy Death, the divorced Mrs. Bradley buried her ex-husband and is obviously enjoying her widowhood immensely. Each mystery offers up a different slice of 1920s British society, with a series of familiar faces, giving viewers more suspects than a police line-up. Peter Davison (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small) also turns up in each episode as Inspector Christmas, who invariably looks no further than his nose and arrests the wrong person. The circus, a haunted house, a quiet fishing village and Mrs Bradley's old school are all settings for some gruesome and horrific murders. No one wants the police involved, but fortunately Mrs Bradley is on hand to uncover the truth behind the crimes.