'Mystery 101: Deadly History': Release date, spoilers and all about Hallmark suspense film

'Mystery 101: Deadly History' stars Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha in key roles as they look for a history professor who is missing
Robin Thomas, Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha as Graham, Amy and Travis in 'Mystery 101: Deadly History' (Hallmark)
Robin Thomas, Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha as Graham, Amy and Travis in 'Mystery 101: Deadly History' (Hallmark)

'Mystery 101: Deadly History' is Hallmark's upcoming signature mystery movie. The two-hour-long feature will trace a missing person case filmed in textbook detective style, the kind we are familiar with.

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Release date and how to watch

'Mystery 101: Deadly History' will premiere on August 1, Sunday, at 8/7c. For those who do not live in the United States, using a VPN will help your case. If you don't have access to cable TV, subscribing to live TV streaming services such as Philo, Sling TV, Vidgo, and Fubo TV will be a wise idea. Most offer free trial subscription plans. 

Spoilers

The official synopsis reads: "The day after the events of 'Killer Timing', a concerned Amy Winslow (Jill Wagner), Travis Burke (Kristoffer Polaha) and Graham Winslow (Robin Thomas) travel to Ithaca, New York to find Amy’s Uncle Alastair (Peter Benson), a history professor at the local college who is missing. Also gone is all of Alastair’s research on the accidental death of a prominent family heir 50 years year ago – a death he believed may have been murder. Amy and Travis join forces with the local sheriff as they work their way through a maze of clues and suspects, including an acerbic corporate CEO, an eccentric patriarch, and Alastair’s estranged wife – a literature professor who, like Amy, specializes in crime fiction."

Cast

Wagner, Polaha, Thomas and Benson aside, 'Mystery 101: Deadly History' also stars Lorne Cardinal (Sheriff Ridgeway), Michael Patrick Denis (Olly Kent), Rhinnan Payne (Lucy Harding), Jenn Maclean-Angus (Sinead Sullivan), Alison Araya (Jennifer Espinosa), Iris Quinn (Eleanor Kent), Jason Cermak (Marco Deleon) and Emma Grabinsky (Janey Sullivan) in key roles.

Jill Wagner attends Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Winter 2018 TCA Press Tour at Tournament House on January 13, 2018, in Pasadena, California (Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images)

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Creators

'Mystery 101: Deadly History' is a Lighthouse Pictures Inc. production with Kristofer McNeeley serving as the executive producer and Jamie Goehring, Shawn Williamson and John MacCarthy as producers. The feature is directed by Stacey N Harding and written by John Christian Plummer with Ryan McMaster as the Director of Photography.

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