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Meet Agatha Christie's intrepid sleuth Bundle Brent in a country-house whodunnit

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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials

From Thursday 15 January, Netflix

A bizarre death at a country house has far-reaching consequences in star-studded mystery drama Agatha Christie's Seven Dials.

The three-parter, penned by Doctor Who writer Chris Chibnall, is Netflix's first whodunnit by the 'Queen of Crime', and adapted from her lesser-known novel The Seven Dials Mystery.

Set in 1925, it sees spirited Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent (Persuasion's Mia McKenna-Bruce) and her widowed mother Lady Caterham (Nolly's Helena Bonham Carter) visit their family's stately home Chimneys, which has been rented out to industrialist Sir Oswald Coote (Hostage's Mark Lewis Jones).

But the morning after a masked ball, one of the guests, Foreign Office worker Gerry Wade (Queen Charlotte's Corey Mylchreest), is found dead in his bedroom, surrounded by alarm clocks.

SUSPICIOUS DEATH