Certain Justice, A

1 9 9 8 (UK)
3 x 50 minute episodes

Roy Marsden returned once again as Commander Adam Dalgleish in this three-part murder mystery from PD James. It was Marsden’s 10th appearance as the poetry-loving Scotland Yard detective.

The story opens with someone cutting out a photograph of top-flight barrister Venetia Aldridge (Penny Downie) and sticking it on a piece of paper with the heading “1958 – 1998”. It turns out that Venetia has made dozens of enemies before she’s found murdered in her chambers.

Was her death motivated by one of her competitors in London’s legal inner circle? or could it have been Gary Ashe (Ricci Harnett), the smarmy young man accused of murdering his aunt in a particularly brutal fashion for whom she just won an acquittal and who now wants to marry Aldridge’s 18-year-old daughter?

Commander Adam Dalgliesh
Roy Marsden
DI Kate Miskin
Sarah Winman
Gary Ashe
Ricci Harnett
Mrs Carpenter
Britta Smith
Edmund Froggett
Philip Stone
Hubert St. John Langton
Frederick Treves
Simon Costello
Richard Huw
Desmond Ulrick
Ian McNeice
Drysdale Laud
Matthew Marsh
Valerie Caldwell
Oona Kirsch
Harry Naughton
Ken Jones
Octavia Aldridge
Flora Montgomery
Mrs Buckley
Janet Dale
Lois Costello
Nina Marc
Young Venetia
Nicola Mycroft
Father Presteign
Roger Blake
Mark Rawlstone
Miles Anderson
Mrs O’Keefe
Zibba Mayes
Michael Gates
Clinton Blake
Mrs Page
Leila Bertrand
Venetia Aldridge
Penny Downie