Queens of Mystery (2019) is a British crime comedy series starring Olivia Vinall as 28yr old Detective Sargent Matilda Stone.

We find out in the 1st episode of Series 1 that Matilda was raised in kinship care with her 3 aunts after her mother mysteriously disappeared when Matilda was a small child.

Matilda’s aunts (played by Julie Graham, Sobhan Redmond & Sarah Woodward) all write crime mystery stories & Matilda was immersed in these & other crime stories they sold in their Murder Ink bookstore in the village of Wildemarsh. American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) – who was in foster care as a child - is referenced in episodes 5 & 6 of Queens of Mystery & acknowledged as the inventor of detective fiction with his stories of C. Auguste Dupin

“The Raven” is a narrative poem by Poe first published in January 1845 & its publication made him popular; it remains one of the most famous poems ever.

One of the mysteries in the Queens of Mystery series is that an Edgar Allan Poe manuscript has been stolen from a library & been replaced by a raven feather. This is connected to the disappearance of Matilda’s mother & ravens are regularly featured in each episode.