Hadleigh

Lord Shawcliffe, a powerful press magnate, implies that if Hadleigh joins his newspaper group he could take control when Shawcliffe retires. Hadleigh is torn between this tempting offer and his deep love of his home and native country.

Hadleigh and Susan uncover a conspiracy when they investigate the new managing director of an old and trusted Yorkshire wine business which has been taken over by a US firm.

Hadleigh discovers the tall, attractive wife of a local industrialist draped across the bonnet of his car. But is it an accident, or is Sir Aubrey using his glamorous ex-model wife as bait?

Susan and three companions have been arrested by the military authorities in a Greek frontier town on trumped-up charges of subversive activities. Hadleigh has to apply all his ingenuity and determination to secure their release.

When a failed painter with rare genius tries to blackmail Hadleigh, the latter disarms him by offering to sponsor his future work.

Young Mark Foster forestalls a group of Westdale business men. Hadleigh manages to regain the initiative and channel the profits of Westdale's new casino into another venture.

Hadleigh invests in an antiques business, infiltrating the local antique dealers 'ring' in order to observe their collusive operations at auctions and incriminate them.

When Hadleigh agrees to accompany a Treasury official to Spain at the Government's expense, he soon discovers the object of the mission is not what he had been led to believe.

A group of powerful men try to use Hadleigh's friendship with an ageing Yorkshire MP to suppress the latter's indiscreet memoirs. Hadleigh advises Kershaw to publish and finds himself deeply involved in the fallout.

An army officer comes before Hadleigh, as the local JP, to be charged under the Official Secrets Act; Hadleigh, however, challenges the right of military authorities to enforce a secret hearing.

When Hadleigh receives a questionnaire telling him to surrender intimate details of his weekend guests, he sends it straight back to the Registrar General - with surprising consequences.

Bill Spence, a Westdale Gazette reporter, drunkenly insults Councillor Cleghorn in the pub. Susan realises Bill has a serious drinking problem.

When Hadleigh gives a dinner party at Melford Park, Sue is convinced that his motive is to persuade a certain Colonel and Mrs. Davie to sell their house to the local council. The whole evening proves to be fraught with tension.