Chiefinspector Wexford (George Baker) löst im fiktiven südenglischen Kingsmarkham Mordfälle. Er ist verheiratet und bekommt gelegentlich Besuch von seinen erwachsenen Töchtern. Leidenschaftlich zitiert er Shakespeare. Die britische Schriftstellerin Ruth Rendell erfand ihren Serienhelden 1964. Seitdem hat sie zwanzig weitere Romane geschrieben, die als Vorlage für die Serie dienten. Meistens wird ein Fall in drei Folgen abgehandelt. Die von Neil Zeiger und Graham Benson für ITV produzierte Serie dürfte Freunde klassischer Whodunit-Detektivgeschichten erfreuen.
Inspektor Wexford ermittelt (Staffel 5)
A New Lease of Death: Part One (Folge 1)
Autor: Peter Berry
Sendedatum: 1991-09-29
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: A local clergyman is anxious to re-open a thirty-year-old murder case, which resulted in Harry Painter being hanged for the axe-murder of an elderly woman. Wexford himself, as a young detective sergeant, helped to convict Painter, and he has to face the possibility that the wrong man was hanged.
A New Lease of Death: Part Two (Folge 2)
Autor: Peter Berry
Sendedatum: 1991-10-06
Laufzeit: 60 min
A New Lease of Death: Part Three (Folge 3)
Autor: Peter Berry
Sendedatum: 1991-10-13
Laufzeit: 60 min
Murder Being Once Done: Part One (Folge 4)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1991-10-20
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Wexford is staying in London with his nephew Howard, a police superintendent, convalescing from over-work and under doctor's orders to drink only water. He is supposed to be resting, but he is bored, and his nephew is dealing with a fascinating murder case. The body of a young woman, Loveday Morgan, was found in Kenbourne Vale Cemetery, strangled with a silk scarf, and the only things in her handbag were a photograph and two telephone numbers. It appears that she had no money and was living under a false name. Wexford, keen to get out and about, is drawn to the case. His unofficial investigation uncovers a story of adoption and parental love.
Murder Being Once Done: Part Two (Folge 5)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1991-10-27
Laufzeit: 60 min
Murder Being Once Done: Part Three (Folge 6)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1991-11-03
Laufzeit: 60 min
From Doon with Death: Part One (Folge 7)
Autor: George Baker
Sendedatum: 1991-11-10
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?
From Doon with Death: Part Two (Folge 8)
Autor: George Baker
Sendedatum: 1991-11-17
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret had two school acquaintances in the town, Helen Missal and Fabia Quadrant, who are now both married to very wealthy men. Wexford assumes that one of these men is Doon, and was having an affair with the victim, but appearances can be deceptive
Means of Evil: Part One (Folge 9)
Autor: Peter Berry
Sendedatum: 1991-11-24
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.
Means of Evil: Part Two (Folge 10)
Autor: Peter Berry
Sendedatum: 1991-12-01
Laufzeit: 60 min

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