A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

A gentleman sleuth solves mysteries and falls in love with a detective novelist.

• Ep 1

  1.Strong Poison: Episode One

  24-03-1987

  Lord Peter Wimsey investigates after the novelist Harriet Vane is accused of poisoning her former lover.

• Ep 2

  2.Strong Poison: Episode Two

  31-03-1987

  Lord Peter asks Miss Murchison to go undercover has a secretary at Norman Urquhart's law firm. She learns he was illegitimate and now paying for a nurse to care for his mother. Ins...

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• Ep 3

  3.Strong Poison: Episode Three

  07-04-1987

  Lord Peter asks his secretary Miss Climpson to find out what Urquhart's nurse Miss Booth knows. Faking a seance Miss Booth admits that Urquhart has forged Philip Boyes Will to make...

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• Ep 4

  4.Have His Carcase: Episode One

  14-04-1987

  While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.

• Ep 5

  5.Have His Carcase: Episode Two

  21-04-1987

  Mrs. Weldon says she intended to marry dancer Paul Alexis and believes he was murdered. Lord Peter tells journalist Salcombe Hardy that the owner of the razor was the murderer. Pet...

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• Ep 6

  6.Have His Carcase: Episode Three

  28-04-1987

  Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his infatuation and her fragile state of mind. Looking for Mrs. We...

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• Ep 7

  7.Have His Carcase: Episode Four

  05-05-1987

  Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However his arranged meeting took place two hours before he died and w...

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• Ep 8

  8.Gaudy Night: Episode One

  12-05-1987

  While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.

• Ep 9

  9.Gaudy Night: Episode Two

  19-05-1987

  Harriet Vane continues her research into the odd goings on her old college. She is attacked and knocked unconscious while investigating someone playing the organ in the college cha...

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• Ep 10

  10.Gaudy Night: Episode Three

  26-05-1987

  The prowler evades Harriet but leaves hairpin. Peter is asked to look over the evidence but Harriet is left flat when he follows an inquiry without her. Miss Devine's tale of an ac...

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