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Rainy Day Mysteries
Some mysteries are made for exactly this kind of afternoon — grey skies, a cup of tea, and nowhere else to be. Here are seven worth settling in with, and where to stream each one in the US.
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A gentle, cozy mystery with plenty of charm — three amateur sleuths in the small Thames-side town of Marlow team up to solve murders the police can't crack alone.
A cold case unit works through decades-old mysteries with quiet patience and real emotional weight, the kind of slow-burn viewing a grey afternoon calls for.
Victorian London fog and rainy streets set the stage for one of the era's first female private detectives, solving cases her male peers refuse to take seriously (titled Miss Scarlet and the Duke for its first four seasons).
P.D. James' poet-detective solves cases with slow-burning, literary mysteries and some of the most beautiful cinematography in the genre.
A quietly principled detective investigates crime on the English home front during WWII, in thoughtful mysteries that reward a slow, attentive watch.
Morse's former sergeant leads his own cases in Oxford, paired with the Cambridge-educated DS James Hathaway in warm, unhurried mysteries built for a quiet day in.
Anthony Horowitz's mystery-within-a-mystery follows an editor investigating her author's death while working through his unfinished manuscript, itself a whodunit that mirrors the real case.
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