This series is a fictionalised spin-off featuring the real-life character Mr Jack Whicher who appeared in The Murder at Road Hill House (2011) as the Metropolitan Police detective who investigated a real-life murder.
This drama reunites Paddy Considine and Olivia Colman from acclaimed and award-winning film Tyrannosaur (2011), which Considine co-wrote and directed.
The second film in the series was made in 2013. Paddy Considine returned as Whicher, now a private inquiry agent. Olivia Colman co-starred. The script was written by Neil McKay. It was directed by Christopher Menaul with Mark Redhead as executive producer, and Rob Bullock as producer. It was filmed on location in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, and central London in early 2013.