该剧根据靡宝的同名小说改编,讲述了上世纪30年代,身处乱世的教书女先生冯世真,为报家仇潜入当时上海滩首屈一指的容家,却意外与仇人之子容嘉上相爱,随后牵扯出一系列匪夷所思的陈年往事。
民国初年,因盗取古墓宝藏而发迹的城中大人物顾大可,多年一直被受古墓的咒佐传说所困扰,濒临精神崩溃的边缘。后来顾得悉当年与其进入古墓寻宝的同伴续一离奇死亡,令他对传说更加深信不疑,遂决定派出其得力助手曹幸川到位于大伤心岭姚家村古墓彻底调查。另一方面,顾的女儿小青一向在外国受教育,喜爱追求刺激冒险生活的她,亦在父亲的反对下加入调查行列。其间,他们更遇上计仔多多有“包搅掂”之称的姚民哀,孔武有力又满肚墨水的大旧以及身材矮小但身手敏捷的师傅仔,在刺激的寻宝生活中加入不少趣事。
In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady's body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry's didn't even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry's call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple.