The production partners have acquired the television rights to all 20 books in the Puzzle Lady series featuring the eccentric Cora Felton, a crossword puzzle columnist who can’t resist poking into unsettling events and solving crimes.
Ten episode series is based on one of the most shocking crimes in the USSR – case of the ‘Vitebsk Strangler’ Gennady Mikhasevich who murdered 36 people from 1971 to1985.
Filmed in Vienna and starring Matthew Beard (‘The Imitation Game’), and Juergen Maurer (‘Vorstadtweiber’, ‘Tatort’), the show is set on the 1900s and the two men who have to use all they have to solve lethal and mysterious crimes.