Beatrix Potter joins with her four-legged friends in solving the mystery of who killed local shepherd Ben Hornby, and finding the heartless humans who broke up a badger family.
Author Beatrix Potter purchases Hill Top Farm in the Lake District hamlet of Near Sawrey in 1905 where she plans to recover from the death of her fiance and work on her books for children, but she and her many animal friends soon become caught up in the domestic joys and mysteries of the small town.
Fifteen-year-old Kate becomes aware of the class consciousness of her middle class family and friends when she falls in love with a boy from a working class family.
Melrose Plant, aristocratic sidekick of Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, leases an estate in Cornwall only to learn he cannot escape the murderous tendencies of his fellow man, or the company of his dreaded Aunt Agatha.
