Back in 1889, Dr Thadeus Northcote suffered an agonising and unexplained death in his Green Lanterns home after he spurned his secret lover and Egyptian housekeeper, who had him under her supernatural spell.
When the enchantress' sprit seems to return to the house, now owned by crime writer Hugo Dore (Paul McGann), to possess a housekeeper's assistant more than a century later, Jonathan (alan Davies) and sidekick Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith) are soon embroiled in the mystery.
The one-off special also has guest appearances by ex-Corrie star Sasha Behar, as Hugo's wife Harriet, and Doreen Mantle (One Foot In The Grave's Mrs Warboys), as housekeeper Mrs Gantry.
'It's really dark and it's the first time Jonathan gets it wrong,' says QI favourite Alan Davies, who first played the quiet master of illusion back in 1997.
'Nowadays we get new younger viewers, teenagers who like QI. They get the Jonathan Creek box set and find it hilarious to see me back in the Nineties.'
Life has also noticeably changed for the curly-haired comic since his wife Kate Maskell gave birth to baby Susie last December.
'We go to parent and baby film screenings,' he reveals. 'It's our principal social life at the moment!'
Meanwhile, Benidorm star Sheridan Smith found herself living the high life when filming this new mystery. 'I had to climb a rope for an Indian rope trick and was up on wires - so I was conquering my demons!'
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