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 6)
The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (Folge 1)
Autor: Trevor Preston
Sendedatum: 1992-09-27
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Wexford is in China on a study tour of historic sites. To his amazement, he has psychic experiences, including a vision of the body of a Chinese nobleman dead for two thousand years. Wexford's tour party is made up of strangers, but he feels tense and claustrophobic among them. Then a young Chinese student drowns during the trip. On his return to England, Wexford is called to a murder scene, and the dead woman, who has been shot, was one of those with him on his Chinese trip. There is no obvious motive, and he decides to investigate all his fellow tourists, finding hidden greed, treachery, theft, and adultery.
The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two (Folge 2)
Autor: Trevor Preston
Sendedatum: 1992-10-04
Laufzeit: 60 min
The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three (Folge 3)
Autor: Trevor Preston
Sendedatum: 1992-10-11
Laufzeit: 60 min
The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (Folge 4)
Autor: George Baker
Sendedatum: 1992-10-18
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to his death in Wexford's opinion and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure one of the Peterlees is a killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man and a series of ramraids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems.
The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two (Folge 5)
Autor: George Baker
Sendedatum: 1992-10-25
Laufzeit: 60 min
An Unwanted Woman: Part One (Folge 6)
Autor: Rosemary Anne Sisson
Sendedatum: 1992-11-01
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: Wexford investigates the killing of an elderly woman. Harry and Doreen Betts of Kingsmarkham are suspected of murdering their mother. But did they do it, or have they been framed?
An Unwanted Woman: Part Two (Folge 7)
Autor: Rosemary Anne Sisson
Sendedatum: 1992-11-08
Laufzeit: 60 min
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (Folge 8)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1992-11-15
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: A Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wexford is called to Tancred House, where Davina Flory and her family lie shot dead in a pool of blood. The only survivor is seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory. There are no other witnesses, and the two possible suspects have vanished into thin air. Then a blackmailer is found dangling from a tree... Wexford slowly uncovers a web of motives, greed, illicit sex, and revenge.
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two (Folge 9)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1992-11-22
Laufzeit: 60 min
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three (Folge 10)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1992-11-29
Laufzeit: 60 min
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four (Folge 11)
Autor: Matthew Jacobs
Sendedatum: 1992-12-06
Laufzeit: 60 min

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Folgen 4
Folgen 6
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Folgen 9
Folgen 10
Folgen 11
Folgen 3
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Folgen 9
Folgen 1
Folgen 10