Now, she finds her relationship with him further strained by his immersion in the world of black magic.Ĭhristie purists will likely object to the numerous alterations Phelps has made. Hermia is already suspicious of Mark’s slender explanations about what happened the night Thomasina died. Accompanied by his current spouse, Hermia (Kaya Scodelario), Mark travels to their home town, the evocatively named fictitious rural village of Much Deeping, to investigate. In Jessie’s shoe, the police find a list of names that includes both Mark’s - with a question mark beside it - and that of Zachariah Osborne (Bertie Carvel), Jessie’s employer.Ĭlues begin to suggest the involvement of a trio of witches with whom Delphine had been acquainted: Sybil Stamfordis (Kathy Kiera Clarke), Thyrza Grey (Sheila Atim) and Bella Webb (Rita Tushingham). Awakening after a night spent cavorting with disgraced socialite and exotic dancer Thomasina Tuckerton (Poppy Gilbert), he finds he’s lying next to her lifeless body.Īnother victim, shopkeeper Jessie Davis (Madeleine Bowyer), turns up soon afterward. A year after the death of his newlywed wife, black Briton Delphine (Georgina Campbell), in what appeared to be a freak accident, affluent white Londoner Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell) has another brush with mortality.
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