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Except the Dying introduces TV audiences to Detective William Murdoch, a principled young man called to solve the mystery of a poor "woman of the street." When Toronto police find the body of a young woman in a back lane, Murdoch's superior, Inspector Brackenreid, is quick to dismiss the incident as an accidental death. However, Murdoch soon discovers her death was far more sinister. The victim was the housemaid of a wealthy and very prominent Toronto family, and, as Murdoch determines, she was pregnant and had opium in her system.
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