This January, “Miss Scarlet and The Duke” returns to Panhandle PBS for its third season, premiering Sunday, January 8 at 7 p.m.
In the new season, Eliza finds herself in fresh and surprising mysteries, ranging from a disappearing magician to police corruption, as she struggles to build her detective agency. Growing competition from a rival agency creates new problems, and all the while she is still juggling her relationship with Inspector William Wellington, the Duke. Eliza also has a new challenge on that front: a beautiful woman from her childhood has caught the Duke’s eye.
Episode One – The Vanishing
A famous magician does the ultimate disappearing act and vanishes into thin air. All of London is talking about the mystery and Eliza is hired by a newspaper to investigate, despite the fact that Duke is already on the case.
Episode Two – Arabella’s
Eliza bumps into Arabella Herbert, the girl who made her life a misery growing up, but, as an adult, Arabella seems kind and considerate and everybody loves her. So when Eliza suspects she may be a criminal, no one wants to hear it, least of all Duke.
Episode Three – Hotel St Marc
Eliza is on the trail of a notorious con man and tracks him down to a hotel in a remote part of France. She believes she has finally caught Scotland Yard’s most wanted man, but she’s not the only hotel guest who wants to claim the reward.
Episode Four – Bloodline
Detective Fitzroy sees one of his colleagues plant evidence on a suspect. With Duke away, Fitzroy turns to Eliza and hires her to look into a case of police corruption.
Episode Five – The Heir
Eliza is on the verge of earning life-changing money when she offers to help the heir to an unclaimed fortune. It’s a race against time to claim the money and Eliza will need Duke’s help, but a revelation about his personal life makes working together impossible.
Episode Six – The Jewel of the North
The season comes to an explosive climax when Eliza receives a bomb in the mail. Who sent it and why? Eliza teams up with Duke, Moses and her old enemy Patrick Nash to find out who is behind the deadly delivery.
