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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Morven Christie, ranked
In the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester during the 1950s, Anglican vicar and former Scots Guards officer Sidney Chambers, and subsequently his successor Will Davenport, work with the overworked Detective Inspector Geordie Keating to forge an unlikely partnership in solving crimes.
The best adolescent ghost hunters in London venture out each night to engage in perilous fight with malevolent ghosts. One small startup stands out among the many adult-staffed corporate organizations: Lockwood & Co. It is run by two teenage boys and a psychically gifted girl who are an outlaw trio free of financial motivations and adult supervision and destined to solve a mystery that will alter the course of history.
A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble and matron Mrs. Corney.
Amanda Price, a keen Jane Austen fan from present-day Hammersmith, who has just rejected an unromantic marriage proposal from her boozy, unfaithful boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet, a character from Pride and Prejudice, in a nightgown in her bathroom; but when Elizabeth disappears, she brushes the incident off as a dream.
Wealthy heiress Rachel Argyll is found bludgeoned to death in her palatial home where she lives with her husband, Leo; their five adopted children and their maid, Kirsten Lindquist. Jack is arrested for the crime as his fingerprints are found on the presumed murder weapon, but is killed in jail before he can stand trial.
In a quaint Scottish village as World War I begins, Kirsty dreams of adventure and a life beyond the ocean. The village organizes a road dance to bid farewell to departing soldiers, fostering a sense of community. However, the atmosphere is shattered when an unthinkable incident occurs, altering Kirsty’s life irreversibly.