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MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE on unravelling a clock-themed Agatha Christie mystery

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A plucky aristocrat embarks on a daring mission to uncover the truth about a puzzling death in new Netflix whodunnit Agatha Christie's Seven Dials.

Based on 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by the 'Queen of Crime', the glossy three-parter is penned by Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall. Set in England in 1925, the tale sees spirited Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent (The Dumping Ground star Mia McKenna-Bruce) and her widowed mother Lady Caterham (Nolly's Helena Bonham Carter) visit Chimneys, their lavish country manor, which is currently being rented by ambitious industrialist Sir Oswald Coote (Keeping Faith actor Mark Lewis Jones).

Events take a sinister turn after a masked ball, however, when dashing guest Gerry Wade (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story's Corey Mylchreest), a Foreign Office worker to whom Bundle was about to get engaged, is found dead in his bedroom surrounded by alarm clocks that had been placed there by his friends as a prank.