Jonathan Creek

Creek & Magellan investigate the apparently impossible suicide of a female illusionist, who daughter happens to be a former flame of Creek's, and whose twin sister was killed fifteen years previously. But there is another lateral mind at work this time, in the form of swashbuckling Det Insp Gideon Pryke.

How can a gun be fired through a glass window without breaking the glass? How do bodies disappear and turn to dust within stone castle walls? Jonathan must once again put his thinking cap on to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of an actress, this time without the help of Maddy!

At midnight on Midsummer's Day 1938, a famous Harvard geneticist, Eli Mencken, accepts a challenge to spend the night inside a gloomy old attic room... where the ghost of a madman is said to prey upon human flesh. Next morning, he has impossibly vanished from the hermetically sealed chamber. The only clue to his disappearance is traces of grisly ectoplasm on the bed. Seventy years on, the vast Gothic house known as Metropolis has passed into the hands of the original owner's daughter and her son, but the strange, unexplained events in "The Nightmare Room" continue...

Hedley Shale is found murdered with two bullets in his chest in the upstairs bedroom at his South London home. Shale's wife is the obvious suspect, but she has a cast iron alibi.

Former film star Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker with a gun lying next to him. His hands were crippled with arthritis, so who could have pulled the trigger?

Plastic surgeon David Churchin is found brutally murdered and his main client, Zola Zbzewski becomes an immediate suspect.

A vicar seeks Maddy's help in solving the murder of his mother-in-law, a horror writer, whose killer disappears before their very eyes.

Jonathan and Maddy are confronted with the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time. Can they find a logical answer?

When a million-pound painting is cut from its frame and stolen by an 'invisible' thief, Jonathan Creek seizes the chance to launch a personal vendetta against its owner.

A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death.

Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams when an international businessman is murdered in a way in which she foresaw. Further confounding Jonathan and Maddy, there is then another death which she also appears to have foreseen.

Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery: a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. Although the American military have other plans and arrive to retrieve the skeleton. However, when they open the case at their military base, it's nowhere to be found...

Jonathan and Carla, who is now a television presenter, are called in to discover how a WPC's murderer can escape a locked gymnasium surrounded by police officers.

Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a woman whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off; finding himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.

Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man could physically transform himself into another person, in front of a witness's eyes. His investigations lead him into a tale of tragic suicide, Groucho Marx, and a parrot named Harvey.

When a classic locked-room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. Attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...

A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.

When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure.