The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

A New Lease of Death: Part One (5x1)

Data di messa in onda: Set 29, 1991

A local clergyman is anxious to re-open a thirty-year-old murder case, which resulted in Harry Painter being hanged for the axe-murder of an elderly woman. Wexford himself, as a young detective sergeant, helped to convict Painter, and he has to face the possibility that the wrong man was hanged.