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The class act of crime detection returns to PBS MYSTERY! in four adventures from Elizabeth George's best-selling novels on The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, starring Nathaniel Parker (Far From the Madding Crowd) as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, and Sharon Small (About a Boy) as his Cockney colleague, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. This season's cases take the sleuths to murders at a posh boarding school, a Scottish estate, Cambridge University, and a scenic but sinister Lancashire village.
Episode Descriptions
Below is a listing of the new
episodes of the Inspector Lynley series. Please note that all time are Eastern
and the dates given are PBS broadcast premieres. Contact your local PBS
station for information on when they will be showing the new series.
Episode 1
Well-Schooled in Murder
Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 9 pm - 90 minutes
Summoned by an old school friend concerned about a missing student, Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) arrives at elite Bredgar Hall with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) in tow to penetrate the school's façade of tradition. The boy turns up dead and soon the investigation is focused on a Mafia-like cabal of older students.
Episode 2
Payment in Blood
Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 9 pm - 90 minutes
A drama rehearsal at a Scottish estate results in the death of the playwright and a house full of suspects. Could it be the director in the bedroom with the knife? The leading lady? The producer? Lynley and Havers sort through the clues to solve not just the mansion murder and its bloody encore, but also a mysterious local suicide.
Episode 3
For the Sake of Elena
Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 9 pm - 90 minutes
Elena, a deaf libertine, is murdered on a jogging trail near Cambridge University. Suspicion falls on assorted academics and intellectuals, each with a sordid motive. The case doesn't gel until another jogger bites the dust, leading Lynley and Havers to a twisted killer with pristine credentials.
Episode 4
Missing Joseph
Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 9 pm - 90 minutes
A vicar calling on a single-mom parishioner falls victim to her cooking when she confuses a poisonous root with an edible one. Was it a mistake or murder? Did someone else doctor the pot? Lynley and Havers find the sleepy Lancashire setting of the crime a virtual Peyton Place of passion and plotting.
Producer
Ruth Baumgarten
Directors
Robert Young: Well-Schooled in Murder
Kim Flitcroft: Payment in Blood
Richard Laxton: For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph
Screenwriters
Simon Block (Well-Schooled In Murder), Lizzie Mickery (Payment In Blood, Missing Joseph), and Valerie Windsor (For The Sake of Elena)
Based on the novels of
Elizabeth George
Executive Producer for WGBH
Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producer for BBC
Pippa Harris
