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    Taste For Death, A

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

    Roy Marsden returned once more as the gentle, poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh in the latest PD James murder story to receive the TV treatment from Anglia Television.

    Recently appointed to Scotland Yard’s newly-formed Sensitive Crimes Squad, the super-sleuth is called into action when Tory MP Sir Paul Berowne (Bosco Hogan) is found dead in a crypt at St Matthews Church in Paddington with his throat cut.

    A homeless man is also dead in the room with him.

    Berowne had been receiving poison pen letters which referred to the death of his first wife and to his shaky second marriage to Lady Barbara (Fiona Fullerton), who is having an affair with Stephen Lampart (Simon Ward).  She is naturally one of the suspects, but about a dozen other suspects also have good motives, and Dalgliesh is baffled.

    This time around, Dalgliesh is assisted by ambitious young Inspector Kate Miskin (Penny Downie).

    The fine cast also included Dame Wendy Hiller as Sir Paul’s aristocratic mother, who will stop at nothing to protect her family. Derek Newark, Kate Buffery and Matthew Marsh were featured, as well as Avril Elgar as Emily Wharton, the lonely church worker who discovers the body and becomes a key witness in the case.

    Commander Adam Dalgliesh
    Roy Marsden
    Lady Ursula Berowne
    Wendy Hiller
    Lady Barbara Berowne
    Fiona Fullerton
    Inspector Kate Miskin
    Penny Downie
    Emily Wharton
    Avril Elgar
    Father Francis Barnes
    Oliver Ford Davies
    Stephen Lampart
    Simon Ward
    Darren Wilkes
    Tat Whalley
    Ivor Garrod
    Rob Spendlove
    Evelyn ‘Mattie’ Matlock
    Gabrielle Lloyd
    Sarah Berowne
    Kate Buffery
    Dominic Swayne
    Matthew Marsh
    Gordon Halliwell
    Derek Newark
    Theresa Nolan
    Rebecca Saire
    Gran
    Constance Chapman
    Insp. Nick Robins
    Robin Marchal
    Sir Paul Berowne
    Bosco Hogan
    Carole Washburn
    Morag Hood
    Frank Musgrave
    Geoffrey Chater

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