Recent irregular episodes of Jonathan Creek did not match the earlier vintage series but Daemons' Roost suggested we were going to have the right mixture of the macabre, fiendish puzzles and humour.
Alison is returning with her husband to her childhood home owned by schlocky horror director Nathan Clore who wants to tell her some family secrets but he becomes incapacitated by a stroke.
The house was once owned by a 19th century sorcerer Jacob Surtees who terrorised the nearby village and had a torture chamber in the mansion. Some spooky incidents leads Alison to call Jonathan as he once helped her husband, Stephen out in the past when he was accused of killing his first wife.
There were plenty of red herrings but also some confusion and plenty of daftness in the plot. It turns out that Stephen might have fooled Jonathan in the past and it did occur to me this might had happened when Jonathan revealed how he solved his first wife's murder. There was one thing bothering me, that Stephen never seemingly met his brother in law.
The ex con stalking Jonathan and who gets burnt to a crisp by also sat uneasily with me.