Frankie Drake Mysteries

About Frankie Drake Mysteries

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.

Frankie Drake Mysteries is a crime and mystery series that ran on CBC Television. Its themes are canada, female detective, private detective, and 1920s.

It ran for 4 seasons and 41 episodes between November 2017 and March 2021. Seasons run to about 10 episodes.

Lauren Lee Smith leads the cast as Frankie Drake, Chantel Riley as Trudy Clarke, Rebecca Liddiard as Mary Shaw, and Sharron Matthews as Flo Chakowitz.

In the United States it streams on PBS, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, and Thirteen. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Fatal Seduction, and Motive make useful companions to Frankie Drake Mysteries. It carries a TV-PG rating.