🎧 Maud West, the Original Miss Marple with Susannah Stapleton
20th Century
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21m
Maud West, operated her own detective agency during the Golden Age of crime in the period after World War One. She used all manner of disguises and tactics to gather information for her clients and to subvert the expected roles for women in this period. Producer: Peter Curry
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