{"id":12608,"date":"2017-11-01T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2017-11-01T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:53:38","slug":"marley-was-dead-to-begin-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12608","title":{"rendered":"Marley was dead: to begin with&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B019N4K1UM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B019N4K1UM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B019N4K1UM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B019N4K1UM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12613 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bbbd0d7-296d-4de0-8a16-bca3561cad42.jpg\" alt=\"0bbbd0d7-296d-4de0-8a16-bca3561cad42\" width=\"316\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bbbd0d7-296d-4de0-8a16-bca3561cad42.jpg 316w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bbbd0d7-296d-4de0-8a16-bca3561cad42-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The question was \u2013 how did he die and who killed him?<\/h2>\n<p>This drama\u00a0begins as a\u00a0murder mystery\u00a0in Victorian London. It offers a glimpse into the backstories to the characters described in\u00a0Charles Dickens works.\u00a0 Dickens created around 989 named characters and many of them are featured in Dickensian.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Bucket sets out to\u00a0investigate the murder of Jacob Marley. Along the way he\u00a0 suspects such well known characters as Bill Sikes\u00a0and Fagin, and even nice Mr Cratchit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Amelia Havisham\u00a0inherits her father\u2019s estate, to the chargrin of her brother.\u00a0 Love may be\u00a0(or may not be) in the air for Amelia and her friend, Honoria. This drama\u00a0plays out\u00a0more\u00a0like a soap opera than a murder mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Does Inspector Bucket solve the crime? Yes, he does. But even when the murderer is revealed the drama continues. The plot lines for the other characters, notably that of \u00a0Miss Havisham, continue to play out.<\/p>\n<p>So who was the murderer? Now, that would be telling. To find out you\u2019ll need to watch\u00a0 the series.\u00a0The 20 episodes boxed set of the BBC drama Dickensian is available now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B019N4K1UM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B019N4K1UM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B019N4K1UM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B019N4K1UM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get the DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The question was \u2013 how did he die and who killed him? This drama\u00a0begins as a\u00a0murder mystery\u00a0in Victorian London. It offers a glimpse into the backstories to the characters described in\u00a0Charles Dickens works.\u00a0 Dickens created around 989 named characters and many of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12608\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marley was dead: to begin with&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[799],"tags":[1128,1441,666,122],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mystery","tag-dickensian","tag-inspector-bucket","tag-murder","tag-murder-mystery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marley was dead: to begin with.... - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12608\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marley was dead: to begin with.... - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marley was dead: to begin with. 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