In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity.

At the turn of the 20th century the Metropolitan Police were overwhelmed with bizarre cases so they turned to outsiders including Houdini and Doyle, who collaborated with New Scotland Yard on some unsolved and inexplicable crimes.

The series follows Frankie Drake, a female private detective operating in Toronto in the 1920s.

When a by-the-book army veteran takes over as commandant at an ailing military academy, he instantly squares off with the school's free-thinking new Dean of Academics. But when they are ...