Get the latest gossip

Miss Scarlet And The Duke review: A drug-addled MP shot in a brothel? It's a case for Victorian sleuth Eliza, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


Detectives!' announces a newspaper advert from 1896. 'If you desire an object accomplished, a mystery cleared consult Slater -

'If you desire an object accomplished, a mystery cleared up or the doings of a person secretly ascertained, consult Slater — "the greatest detective of the age" — at No 1 Basinghall St, E.C.' Like a cross between Love Island and The Apprentice, Rylan's reality show Hot Mess Summer (Amazon Prime Video) sends eight shallow show-offs to Zante . The investigation was great fun, too, as Eliza discovered a secret passage in a brothel masquerading as an 'elite gentleman's club', and quizzed a laudanum-addled government minister after he was shot in bed with one of the girls.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Daily Mail

Read more on:

Photo of CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Related news:

News photo

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS' WEEKEND TV: Shocking or slapstick . . . these murders are brilliantly inventive

News photo

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Did Elvis really fly to England for posh poached egg and asparagus?

News photo

What inspired Mastermind's sinister black chair and dazzling spotlight? CHRISTOPHER STEVENS has the answer - but it's not what you might think