Elizabethan mysteries hold a pleasant place in my heart and this one is no exception. Ursula Blanchard is an adventuresome young woman in the service of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir William Cecil. She is generally assigned to do undercover work when there is suspicion that someone or some group is threatening the sovereign's rule.
In this episode of the series she is manipulated into coming back from her home in France to retrieve her young daughter Meg and take her back to France. Once in England, however, she is convinced to take an assignment to find out whether a Welch Lord, Sir Robert Mortimer, is plotting against the Queen. It turns out there is more than one unsavory plot going on in Mortimer's Vetch Castle and Ursula and her companions find themselves ensnared in most of them. We have musical ghosts, accusations of witchcraft, a nasty murder, dark abandoned towers, and dangerous goings on high in the Welch mountains to keep things moving along. The main problem I see is the plot has many threads and takes an awfully long time to resolve. I give it a 3 1/2 out of 5.
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