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|main character  = [[Dodie Golightly]], [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]], [[Timothy Bold]]
|main character  = [[Dodie Golightly]], [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]], [[Timothy Bold]]
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|featuring      = [[Henry Duke]], [[Lucrezia Noggins]]
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|enemy          = [[Carswell Hobbs]]
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|writer          = [[Paul Magrs]]
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'''''Mystery Lady - S01E01''''' was the only title given for the first release in the ''[[Mystery Lady (audio series)|Mystery Lady series]]'' written by [[Paul Magrs]] and prominently featuring the character of [[Dodie Golightly]] who originated in the [[2013 (releases)|2013]] ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' story ''[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]''.
'''''Mystery Lady - S01E02''''' was the only title given for the second release in ''[[Mystery Lady (audio series)|Mystery Lady]]'', written by [[Paul Magrs]] and prominently featuring the character of [[Dodie Golightly]] who originated in the [[2013 (releases)|2013]] ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' story ''[[The Ninnies on Putney Common (short story)|The Ninnies on Putney Common]]''.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Dodie Golightly]] is a writer of stories, creating characters in order to do dreadful things to them. Dodie, with her assistant, [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]], and her best friend, TV personality, [[Timothy Bold]] is about to embark on a phantasmagorical journey beyond her wildest dreams. They’ve got a mystery, a road map, and a paisley-painted-mini. They’re caught in a love triangle. Clues discovered in a mysterious manuscript lead their investigation into a series of literary murders; who are the authors listed in the book and why does Dodie’s name have a skull scrawled next to it?
[[Dodie Golightly|Dodie]] meets the Chief Editor at [[Mephistopheles and Company|Mephistopheles & Co.]], who seems frightened of some unseen force. She learns about the mysterious editor, [[Fox Soames]], before there are strange shenanigans on the studio floor when [[Timothy Bold|Timothy]] appears on his live TV show. Dodie, Tim and [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]] have got themselves a mystery, a road map and a brand new mini. Will they make it to the first anthology author before he meets the same fate as the character in his own macabre short story?


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
Having been roped into appearing on her friend [[Timothy Bold]]'s new TV pop show [[Smashing Tunes]], [[Dodie Golightly]] is distracted when her personal assistant [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]] presents her with a letter from esteemed book publisher [[Mephistopheles and Company]]'s editorial director [[Henry Duke]] who informs her that her work will appear in [[The Horrible Book of Terror]].
During a meeting with [[Henry Duke]], the editorial director of [[Mephistopheles and Company]], [[Dodie Golightly|Dodie]] learnt about the disappearance of [[Vaughan Fretwell]] - one of the [[The Horrible Book of Terror|anthology]] contributors. She was also informed that [[Helen Spedding]] was a fraud and had not been hired as a copyeditor for the manuscript. Together Dodie and [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]] visited Vaughan's home at [[Shepherd's Bush]] only to find that the place had been abandoned for some time. The house was in complete disarray with [[maggot]]s and moldy food making the smell unbearable. It wasn't long before Dodie and Cassandra discovered Vaughan - who was barely still alive and attempted to warn the girls about the manuscript before succumbing to death.


Invited for a meeting with Mephistopheles, Dodie and Cassandra headed to [[Bloomsbury]] alongside Timothy who was filming [[Spin the Bottle|another television show]] in [[London]]. While on the train Cassandra witnessed an intense encounter between freelance copyeditor [[Helen Spedding]] and a [[Smythe (Mystery Lady)|man]] who attempted to grab the manuscript that she was working on before Helen throttled him into submission. Later, Helen caught up with the trio as they attended a meal at the [[Knightsbridge]] and revealed that she was the copyeditor for ''The Horrible Book of Terror'' and her attacker had been an agent hoping to get his hands on the book. As Dodie and her friends were visiting Mephistopheles themselves, Helen requested that they take them the manuscript to which Dodie agreed.
Not wanting to remain in the house any longer the pair tip off the police anonymously, and then attend [[Timothy Bold|Timothy]]'s [[Spin the Bottle]] television appearance. However, things again take a turn for the worse as Timothy is enlisted to perform a magic act - in place of [[magician]] [[Carswell Hobbs]] who has taken ill - and his assistant, and Carswell's second wife, [[Doris Hobbs]] turns up dead on stage having been strangled by her own feather boa after stepping inside the magic box with Timothy. Amidst the chaos Cassandra was approached by [[Lucrezia Noggins]] who invited her meet someone who wanted to talk with her, and to Cassandra's shock the individual turned out to be Doris Hobbes herself - who wished to inform Cassandra that Timothy had no part in her murder.


Upon their return to Timothy's flat Cassandra excused herself for an early night, in an attempt to avoid the tension between Dodie and Timothy after she rejected his marriage proposal. In her sleep Cassandra had a dream about Helen Spedding being attacked by a moth-like being as she returned home, and she alerted Dodie about this when she awoke. Soon after a blizzard burst through the apartment and ripped open the manuscript tossing pages across the room - Dodie, Cassandra and Timothy found that several pages of the work was missing. Fortunately, the contents page was found by Timothy, but Dodie was shocked to discover strange markings next to the thirteen contributors' names and that her name had a skull written beside it.
The trio found a strand of synthetic orange hair which they deduced belonged to the murderer, and Cassandra realised that Carswell Hobbs was known for wearing a long nylon orange wig. When Dodie and Cassandra, along with the [[Olliphant|Detective Inspector]], inspected the magic box they discovered Carswell hiding behind a rotating panel. Upon being accused of Doris' murder, Carswell confessed that he had loathed her and wished to frame someone else live on television. Despite Carswell's confession Timothy was forced to head to the [[Shepherd's Bush prison]] to make a full statement.
 
While Dodie and Cassandra were waiting for Timothy at the station, Cassandra was again approach by [[Lucrezia Noggins]] who revealed that she was on the the contributors for [[The Horrible Book of Terror]]. Lucrezia stated that [[Fox Soames]] was a huge fan of her work and that she had contributed to every anthology in the [[Book of Mayhem]] series, despite having died long before the first book had been punished.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Dodie Golightly]]
* [[Dodie Golightly]]  
* [[Timothy Bold]]
* [[Timothy Bold]]  
* [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]]
* [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]]  
* [[Director (Mystery Lady: Episode One)|Director]]
* [[Henry Duke]]
* [[Helen Spedding]]
* [[Vaughan Fretwell]]
* [[Smythe (Mystery Lady)|Man]]
* [[Doris Hobbs]]
* [[Director (Mystery Lady: Episode Two)|Director]]
* [[Floor Manager (Mystery Lady: Episode Two)|Floor Manager]]
* [[Detective Inspector]] [[Olliphant]]
* [[Lady]] [[Lucrezia Noggins]]
* [[Derek (Mystery Lady)|Derek]]
* [[Carswell Hobbs]]


== References ==
== References ==
* Dodie investigated poisonings at the [[Cheadle Hulme]] [[Women's Institute]] where [[strychnine]] had been added to [[raspberry]] [[jam]].
* [[Henry Duke's father]] previously ran [[Mephistopheles and Company]].  
* An incident in the [[Restaurant (Mystery Lady)|revolving restaurant]] at the [[Post Office Tower]] in [[London]] had changed [[Cassandra (Mystery Lady)|Cassandra]].
* Dodie's previous editor was [[Mr Figgis]] who operated from a used bookstore in [[Morecambe]].
* Dodie lives in the leafy suburbs of [[Heaton Moor]] in [[Manchester]].
* [[Vaughan Fretwell]] lived at [[Shepherd's Bush]] which was close to the [[BBC Television Centre]].
* Dodie has two cats [[Agatha (Mystery Lady)|Agatha]] and [[Edgar (Mystery Lady)|Edgar]].
* The first short story in [[The Horrible Book of Terror]] was ''[[Grub Street]]'' written by Vaughan Fretwell.
* Dodie and Timothy attended [[Betty Street school]] together.
* Appearing on [[Smashing Tunes]] are [[Mervin and his Mop-heads]], [[Gary and the Gonks]], [[Brenda Soobie]] and [[Peter and Penelope]].
* [[Mephistopheles and Company]] is the name of a book publisher in [[Bloomsbury]]. In the [[1920s]] they published the mystery tales of [[Lucrezia Noggins|Lady Lucrezia Noggins]], and by the 60s were having success with the strange adventures of [[Oswald Arthur]].
* The [[Taj Mahal (Mystery Lady)|Taj Mahal]] was a Chinese takeaway owned by [[Uncle Sayeed]].
* [[The Horrible Book of Terror]] is volume 27 of an anthology series edited by [[Fox Soames]].
* [[Knightsbridge]] was a [[French]] restaurant in London.
* [[Helen Spedding]] had been a spy in [[France]] during the war working for the Resistance, but now lived at her sister [[Edna Spedding]]'s cottage in [[Ramificashun]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* [[Brenda Soobie]] is an incarnation of [[Iris Wildthyme]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)|Bafflement and Devotion]]'', et al.)
''To be added''
* [[Fox Soames]] was editor of the [[Books of Mayhem]] anthology series. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[To the Devil — a Diva! (novel)|To the Devil — a Diva!]]'', et al.)


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://mofibo.com/dk/da/books/1797556-Mystery-Lady-S01E01 Storytel page for Mystery Lady - S01E01]
* [https://mofibo.com/dk/da/books/1797560-Mystery-Lady---S01E02 Storytel page for Mystery Lady - S01E02]


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