A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

  • Premiered: Mar 1987
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • BBC One
  • Unknown
  • Crime Drama Mystery

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Season 1
1x1
Strong Poison, Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 25, 1987
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates after the novelist Harriet Vane is accused of poisoning her former lover.
1x2
Strong Poison, Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 01, 1987
Lord Peter asks Miss Murchison to go undercover has a secretary at Norman Urquhart's law firm. She learns he was illegitimate and now paying for a nurse to care for his mother. Insp. Parker confirms Philip Boyes was definitely poisoned.
1x3
Strong Poison, Part 3
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 08, 1987
Lord Peter asks his secretary Miss Climpson to find out what Urquhart's nurse Miss Booth knows. Faking a seance Miss Booth admits that Urquhart has forged Philip Boyes Will to make him the sole beneficiary but can Lord Peter break him.
1x4
Have His Carcase, Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 15, 1987
While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.
1x5
Have His Carcase, Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 22, 1987
Mrs. Weldon says she intended to marry dancer Paul Alexis and believes he was murdered. Lord Peter tells journalist Salcombe Hardy that the owner of the razor was the murderer. Peter and Harriet attempt to recreate Alexis last movements.
1x6
Have His Carcase, Part 3
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 29, 1987
Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his infatuation and her fragile state of mind. Looking for Mrs. Weldon's husband, Bunter has more questions than answers.
1x7
Have His Carcase, Part 4
Episode overview
Air date
May 06, 1987
Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However his arranged meeting took place two hours before he died and witness Jem Pollock only saw Alexis meet with a young woman.
1x8
Gaudy Night, Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
May 13, 1987
While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.
1x9
Gaudy Night, Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
May 20, 1987
Harriet Vane continues her research into the odd goings on her old college. She is attacked and knocked unconscious while investigating someone playing the organ in the college chapel in the middle of the night.
1x10 Show finale
Gaudy Night, Part 3
Episode overview
Air date
May 27, 1987
The prowler evades Harriet but leaves hairpin. Peter is asked to look over the evidence but Harriet is left flat when he follows an inquiry without her. Miss Devine's tale of an academic faking his thesis points to someone with a grudge.

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