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Days before Christmas in Edwardian-era Toronto, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) is called to investigate a daring train robbery. When witnesses insist the culprit exhibited superhuman abilities, Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris, Still Standing) realizes the robber bears a striking resemblance to the title character of his new graphic novel, Jumping Jack. As more robberies targeting gifts from Eaton's luxury department occur around Toronto,...
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 3
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After celebrating a big win, boxer Amos Robinson goes down for the count, courtesy of a gunshot to the chest. A witness finds Robinson's wife, Fannie, standing over the body but Murdoch aims to prove her innocence.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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It seems like an open-and-shut case when local farmer Alexander Reynolds is found with an axe in his chest at his birthday celebration. Reynolds's blood-soaked daughter immediately confesses to the crime, but Murdoch believes there are deeper issues at play.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 22
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Crabtree is shocked when Amelia Ernst, one of the deranged sisters who abducted him and tortured Effie, voluntarily turns herself in. Effie intends to make her face the full force of justice but is hobbled by a clever lawyer. Murdoch takes leave to spend time with his new baby daughter, Susannah, while Margaret Brackenreid pursues her fugitive son, Bobby.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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The Canadian prime minister and national security agent Terrence Meyers enlist Murdoch's help with an extortion crisis. They have 24 hours to stop the detonation of a rogue weapon that could spark a war between Canada and the United States.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 24
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After finding a bomb at their home, Murdoch secures Ogden and baby Susannah at a seedy hotel with a panic button while he pursues the threat. Meanwhile, Crabtree is hunting the otherworldly beings who seem to have abducted Effie's maid of honor, to the glee of his future father-in-law and disdain of his mother-in-law to be. Both Brackenreid and Hart are being blackmailed by her nefarious father.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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The manager of the ladies wear section at Eaton Co. is found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft. As Murdoch investigates the employees and their motives, it becomes clear that a master manipulator is at work.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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After the electrocuted body of a man is found near the university, Murdoch and Brackenreid investigate researchers Arthur and Laura Kingston. Snidely referred to as "The Frankensteins" for their bizarre psychological studies, they deny any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Julia is unsettled by her needy neighbor Goldie Huckabee, and Crabtree is suspicious of Dorothy, Effie's new secretary.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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When a politician dies in a fall at the legislative building, a witness blames it on ghosts rumored to haunt the site. Murdoch looks into the politician's suspicious land deal, while Crabtree pursues his own line of inquiry against Murdoch's orders.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 10
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When the lead singer of a travelling ragtime group turns up dead, Detective Murdoch looks to the group's complicated past for answers.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 18
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As bodies pile up in the morgue, the victims killed in different ways but most missing the same macabre trophy, it appears that a sequential killer is on the loose in Toronto. While Murdoch hunts for the culprit, Crabtree deals with a perilous situation of his own.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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A young student dies in an opium den, but the cause of death is not immediately obvious. Murdoch probes the dead man's fellow members of the Earth and Dragon Society, a group of students interested in Chinese philosophy, led by an eccentric professor.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 18
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Murdoch finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a burlesque dancer found dead in his bed. While Stationhouse Four proclaims his innocence, Murdoch goes into hiding as the newly reappointed Chief Constable Davis continues his vendetta against him.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 3
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When an Egyptian sarcophagus is opened at a museum exhibit, a hidden cobra delivers a fatal bite to one of the expedition's archaeologists. Further strange incidents incite rumors of a mummy's curse-and bolster sales of Crabtree's Egyptian-themed adventure novel.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 2
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With tensions simmering between Protestants and Catholics, the police department is on high alert during an Orange Day parade. When a town alderman is shot by a sniper in the midst of the festivities, Toronto's Irish Catholic residents fall under suspicion.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 1
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A dazed Murdoch wakes up in Bristol, England, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Worse still, it seems he's wanted by British intelligence agents for murder.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 13
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As the dawn of the new century approaches, the team face difficult decisions about their lives. Murdoch confronts the future in more ways than one, as a scientist comes to town claiming to have made a time machine.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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Wealthy patriarch Percival Jenkins is found facedown in a bowl of porridge, pulling Murdoch into a world of privilege and resentment. Murdoch untangles the twisted web connecting the servants and family members and finds that each has a motive to kill the master of the manor.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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A bank robbery and two murders seem to implicate the brash young Harry Houdini. His flirtatious assistant who happens to be Dr. Ogden's sister is convinced the illusionist is innocent. While the women vie for Murdoch's attention, Inspector Brackenreid is determined to keep Houdini in chains.
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