The fake police guard in "The Three Gamblers" is a young Sgt. Bacchus! He changed a lot in the intervening decade, but you'll recognise the voice. Final appearance of Sheridan Smith as Joey Ross. First appearance of Sarah Alexander as Polly Creek. A former 1970s sex kitten decides to spill the beans about her past love affairs. Then she has an accident and is left in a coma - so how come she was seen near a church making her peace with god. Enter a man in a duffel coat and shaggy hair with the answer....but this time it isn't Jonathan Creek. When "ghost hunter" and investigator into the spirit world, Justin Mallory is killed in a boating accident and his body mysteriously disappears is it true that his spirit now desperately trys to communicate with his lover, beautiful American businesswoman Geraldine Vacarro to try and explain his own death?

The other young woman (Sheridan Smith), who has a blog where she solves complex problems, wants to find out out what happened to her friend. Lance's mother, Judy Parfitt, whose father was a famous magician, advises her that she will need help and gets her together with Jonathan (in a very funny scene). The two embark on an adventure together trying to figure out what happened in that room. There's also another part to the story involving deep family secrets and a missing woman.....I shan't say anymore has it's very easy to spoil a Creek episode,a b c d e f g h Wylie, Ian (18 December 2008). "Jonathan Creek gets creepy". Manchester Evening News. Guardian Media Group . Retrieved 2009-01-02. Jeffery, Morgan (28 February 2014). "Alan Davies: I want to play Jonathan Creek for another 10 years". Digital Spy . Retrieved 18 October 2014. Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting worth a million pounds was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone! Set five years after the previous episode, “Gorgons Wood”, “The Grinning Man” begins by introducing the Gothic mansion Metropolis. Since 1938, a number of visitors staying overnight in the mansion’s attic “Nightmare Room” have disappeared without a trace. Originally owned by a spiritualist, the mansion is now the property of his grandson, stage magician Lance Gessler (Nicholas Boulton). Gessler lives with his mother, Constance (Judy Parfitt), his partner Elodie (Jenna Harrison), and their groundskeeper, Glenn (Ciarán McMenamin). They offer shelter to paranormal investigator Joey Ross and her friend Mina (Naomi Bentley) when the two are caught in a storm. Mina elects to sleep in the Nightmare Room, and has vanished by morning. Constance calls in sleuth Jonathan Creek to investigate Mina’s disappearance.

The group used period costumes designed by Vivienne Westwood in their video for "Jilted", an original song written by Marcella Puppini (not to be confused with the 1954 Theresa Brewer country number). Jesse Quin, bassist of the British band Keane appears in the video as extra. Fair warning — if you watch QI before you watch this, you may find it difficult to take Alan Davies seriously. The vanished woman, Mina, is a friend of paranormal investigator Joey Ross (played by Sheridan Smith) who will be Jonathan’s new assistant for this story as well as the next two specials. I will save my overall thoughts about the character for my post about her last story but I will say that I really like how she is introduced here and that I think Smith was inspired casting, offering something quite different from either of her predecessors. twentysix wins three top awards in one night creativematch 5 November 2008". Creativematch.co.uk. 5 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009 . Retrieved 2 January 2011. a b c d Wylie, Ian (10 December 2008). "Writer: Why I revived Jonathan Creek". Manchester Evening News. Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013 . Retrieved 2009-01-02.The acting is very good, the mystery intriguing if really out there, and a study by Hieronymus Bosch overlooking the proceedings. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" appears on Jazzism 1 from Jazzism Magazine (2008) The trio started a Pledge Music campaign to crowd fund their new album (along with an optional bonus edition of remixes) with the help of fans. The album was finalised before Christmas 2015 and it was released in March 2016 (Those who donated money to the creation of the album were able to receive the album digitally on 25 February and The Deluxe remix edition on 7 June). A best selling author is shot in the heart in her daughter's home on Halloween. The killer appears to have vanished in a puff of smoke, but with Jonathan Creek to busy to help Maddy, she must solve the crime on her own. The Puppini Sisters: nouvel album et série de concerts en France cet automne". concertlive.fr. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011 . Retrieved 17 July 2014.