Dash Copper, Male Detective

In the late 22nd century, social fragmentation has drifted the verdant Surrey Hills area Southwest of London into a lookalike of Queen Victoria's 1880's with the addition of a significant female domination leftover from the (arguably) Golden Era of the Queens of England. Modern technology is available, but the simple life is treasured.   In Episode 1, Dash Copper, the male super-sleuth, the protege and husband of Duchess Victoria Copper, (a.k.a. the Duchess of Electronic Security), personally delivers a business proposal from his wife to the Marchioness Broadwood in her stately manor house...   ...when a murder occurs!   He cannot return to his wife with the Broadwood Estate in a turmoil that could shift the balance of power in the household, that could even threaten the life of the Matriarch. His training in observation and deduction will be put to the test.   But will anyone listen to just a stranger?   ...just an outsider?   ...just a man?  

Rated PG-DNBV

This will be similar to a Miss Marple detective story, but with the genders reversed. Throughout the series, men in this region are widely regarded to be little more than handsome faces with broad shoulders, who should stick to what they are good at doing, like lifting heavy things and following orders, instead of worrying their pretty little heads about complicated things like finances and politics, or who murdered whom.   The protagonist is forced to remain naked for the entire first episode simply because his wife was thought to have loaded him down with spying equipment, an accusation which very likely is completely justified, which would have given him a great deal of sensitive and proproetary information about the Broadwood Estate and its inhabitants, (and probably would have allowed him to solve the murder the instant it happened), but no one wants an outsider to have that kind of knowledge and leverage, even if it means another murder is about to occur.