S1, E1: Drama series based on the lives and friendship of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. A nun is brutally murdered at one of the notorious Magdalene laundries, and the only witness claims that she saw the killer - a young 'Maggie', who died six months ago. Conan Doyle and Houdini approach Chief Inspector Merring of Scotland Yard to investigate the case. Doyle hopes to find that there is truth to the nun's claim, while Houdini hopes to prove there is not. Merring assigns them the Yard's first female cop, Constable Adelaide Stratton.