A former magician is seen shooting herself with a rifle, yet medics say she’d already been dead for hours. But why did an interfering hobo nearby leave no footprints in the freshly fallen snow? And how come someone slightly shifting a small table confuses everyone?

And what does all this have to do with residents of Hammersmith being angry about a new strip bar in the neighbourhood?

Black Canary was the first ever Jonathan Creek Christmas special, sitting in-between series two and three, airing on 24th December 1998.

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