In spring 1948, Alleyn joins a weekend party at Frantock Hall. His deductive powers are tested to the limit as he uncovers the sinister connection between the theft of a priceless chalice and a game of murder that goes horribly wrong. Adapted from the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh, featuring the character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
2 seasons · 8 episodes
Hand in Glove
Jan 10, 1994100 min
A divorced and disliked man living in a nobleman's estate is found in a sewer ditch after someone rolled a concrete pipe on his head.
Dead Water
Apr 1, 1994100 min
Alleyn's old French teacher, the landlord of an idyllic Scottish island is receiving death threats because she's blocking its development as a health spa.
Scales of Justice
Aug 29, 1994100 min
The publication of a war hero's memoirs and his dispute with a neighboring fisherman about poaching leads to a murder.
Patrick Malahide
Roderick Alleyn
William Simons
Inspector Fox
Belinda Lang
Agatha Troy
Tom Wilkinson
Gerald Lacklander
Rosie Cavaliero
Rose
Edward Atterton
Paul Kentish
Graham Crowden
Sir Henry Ancred
Peter Blythe
Thomas Ancred
Jonathan Cullen
Cedric Ancred
Emma Amos
Sonia Orrincourt
Sarah Winman
Fenella Cairnes
Patricia Garwood
Jenetta Cairnes
