Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
1 season · 3 episodes
Episode 1
Mar 20, 199751 min
Peverell Press poet and partner Gabriel Dauntsey calls on his old friend Commander Adam Dalgliesh when the Press falls victim to a spate of malicious pranks. When the body of a senior editor is discovered and the Press's ruthless managing d
Episode 2
Mar 27, 199751 min
There's a snake in the grass at Innocent House -- Peverell Press's elegant home on the Thames -- and it was found wound around the neck of the Press's cold-blooded managing director, Gerard Etienne Etienne's death leads Dalgliesh to questi
Episode 3
Apr 3, 199751 min
Dalgliesh is convinced that the answer to Gerard Etienne's murder likes buried deep in someone's past -- but whose? Dalgliesh is running out of time and the body count continues to rise, when a long-forgotten photograph offers a shocking pi
Roy Marsden
Adam Dalgliesh
Lizzy McInnerny
Kate Miskin
Carolyn Pickles
Miss Blackett
Cathryn Harrison
Claudia Etienne
Rowena Cooper
Mrs. Demery
Sylvia Syms
Esme Carling
Ian Bannen
Gabriel Dauntsey
Amanda Root
Frances Peverell
Jonny Coyne
James de Witt
Raymond Gérôme
Jean-Philippe Etienne
Samantha Edmonds
Mandy Price
Eoin McCarthy
Declan Cartwright
