Life should not be so complicated for Richard, a boy of thirteen, but his older brother Henry and his baby sister don’t make things easy. Richard and his family have moved to Warcastle, England where their father is to be the town’s new Justice of the Peace.
As Richard makes friends, he finds even more problems. It seems his friends can’t stay out of trouble and Richard is the only person standing between those friends and the horrible punishments of the day. While his father serves the town, Richard works for his own brand of justice.
Episode #1
The Witch of Warcastle by Ann Mason (Ages 9+)
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When Richard and Henry’s father told them to leave the pigs alone, Henry took matters into his own hands. But the pigs didn’t like being hit with rocks, so they fought back. Just before the pigs charged, Richard saw a young girl staring at them from the bushes. Was she giving them the evil eye?
The local doctor has fixed Henry up, but the priest wants Meg, the young girl from the bushes, captured and punished. Seem like the whole town agrees that Meg is a witch, just like her mother was. But Richard isn’t so sure. Richard knows that if he’s going to save Meg from being tried as a witch and tortured, he’s going to have to come up with a clever plan.
But will he be able to save poor Meg?
Episode #2
The Jewel Thief
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The Duchess of Greaves is coming to Warcastle and she’s stopping at Richard Lawton’s home for the night. When Justice Lawton hosts a dinner party at the manor, he hopes to impress the duchess, even if she eats like Spot, their pig. But everyone knows strange things happen in the dark and when the candles go out, everything goes all wrong. Someone steals the duchess’ precious jewels and stabs her.
Richard has no idea who could have stolen the jewels, until he remembers the story his friend Edward had told him earlier in the day, a story filled with intrigue and murder. Something isn’t right with Edward’s retelling of history, and something is even less right with the Duchess of Greaves. Could Edward, an orphan who works at the church, be the key to solving the mystery of the missing jewels, or could he be the one who stole them? Richard won’t know until he finds the missing Edward.
