1 9 8 5 (UK)
6 x 60 minute episodes
Cool, incisive Scotland Yard detective Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh (Ray Marsden) returns in his third mystery case, this time to investigate the death of Alice Liddell (Freda Dowie), who ran a home for unwed mothers in Suffolk.
One of the residents there is Sally Jupp (Kim Thomson), who was a witness in a drug-related murder investigation in London (she discovered the strangled body of her drug-dealing former boss in the bargain basement of the book club where she once worked).
Back at home in Suffolk, Sally works at the local manor house for the Maxie family, and it is apparent that eldest son Stephen (Rupert Frazer) has more than a passing interest in her.
When sally dies at the Maxie residence, the question is, was she killed or did she commit suicide? and was it related to the London investigation?
Historic Rainthorpe Hall in Norfolk provided the atmospheric location.
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh
Roy Marsden
Inspector John Massingham
John Vine
Eleanor Maxie
Phyllis Calvert
Deborah Riscoe
Mel Martin
Dr Stephen Maxie
Rupert Frazer
Martha
Jean Heywood
Simon Maxie
Norman Wooland
Sir Reynold Price
Bill Fraser
Felix Hurst
Julian Glover
Catherine Bowers
Clare Higgins
Rev Bernard Hinks
John Bott
Derek Pullen
Robert Glenister
Sally Jupp
Kim Thomson
Dr Charles Epps
Charles Morgan
Miss Molpas
Barbara Hicks
Ingrid Graham
Katja Kersten
Victor Proctor
Ronnie Stevens
Marcos Iturralde
Arturo Venegas
Rosie
Lucy Hancock
Alice Liddell
Freda Dowie
Nicky Alexiou
Dimitri Andreas
Doris Proctor
Elizabeth Benson
DS Dick Daniel
Oliver Maguire
Sam Bocock
Will Leighton
Deirdre Croome
Auriol Smith