| Genres: | Drama, Suspense, Historical |
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Follow the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, Toronto's only all-female detective agency, as they fight crime in the 1920s, with flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
Frankie partners with a surprising ally when she’s named as the number one suspect in a robbery that looks like the work of her dead father.
Frankie and Trudy are hired by a factory owner to root out communists at his plant, but things soon take an explosive turn.
When a body turns up in the luggage of a young man, the case brings Frankie and Trudy into Toronto’s elite social circles.
When Trudy gives shelter to a faith-healing preacher’s daughter, she and Frankie find themselves investigating Toronto’s jazz scene.
Frankie and Trudy go undercover in the glamorous world of film in order to solve a seemingly impossible murder on a silent movie set.
After a shooting injures the young son of a friend, Frankie and Trudy’s investigation leads them into the dangerous world of bootlegging.
Mary recruits Frankie and Trudy to find a missing teacher, but their investigation leads them to family secrets, Chinatown, and murder.
A day off turns into a day at the office for Frankie and Trudy when the infant son of a charismatic aviator is kidnapped during an air show.
The horrors of war haunt Frankie when an investigation into a soldier’s murder reunites her with a friend left traumatized by his tour of duty.
Frankie is hired to confirm the identity of a young woman claiming to be a Russian princess and protect her from those who want her dead.
When Frankie gets a mysterious call from a British spy, Mary discovers how she and Trudy met, and how Drake Private Detectives was formed.
Hear from executive producer Christina Jennings, Lauren Lee Smith (Frankie), Chantel Riley (Trudy), Sharron Matthews (Flo), and Rebecca Liddiard (Mary), as they discuss how the four strong female lead characters in the series demonstrate how difficult it was to be a woman in the 1920s, and despite that, celebrate female independence and empowerment.
Christina Jennings and cast members discuss how the women of the series are early feminists; how they don't need a man to define them, and are not afraid to be living the lives they want to live, not the lives that are dictated by society.
