简介:Rachel James is shot through her kitchen window while having breakfast early one morning. She was having an affair with Dr. Julian Storrs, an Oxford professor who is a candidate for Master of Lonsdale College. When her next door neighbor is also killed however, Morse determines that the shooting of James may have been in error. Morse also suspects that he may have been a blackmailer. Both Storrs an his rival for the Masters position, Denis Cornford had secrets that would make them suspects. Morse determines that several others also had things to hide and any one of them could have committed the murders.
简介:Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from...
简介:A year after her murder, the police re-open the case of Yvonne Harrison when they receive an anonymous letter implicating a burglar, Harry Repp, who is about to be released from prison. Supt. Strange assigns the case to DS Lewis, who is chafing at the bit awaiting his promotion to Inspector. Morse has been ill and has only just returned to work. He steps on Lewis' toes by invol...
简介:Felix McClure, an Oxford University professor, is stabbed to death in his college study. Not only was he an expert in his field but he was one of the University's key fund-raisers. The investigation focuses on Brooks, a one-time cleaner for McClure who quit his college job abruptly after a student, Mathew Rodway, jumped out of a college window high on drugs. When Morse learns t...
简介:故事发生在1914年的英国,维芙(米兰达·理查森 Miranda Richardson 饰)邂逅了名为艾略特(威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰)的男子,此时的艾略特只是在牛津莫顿大学研究现代派诗的青年学生,一见钟情的两人很快就携手步入了婚姻的殿堂,婚后,艾略特展现出了对于写作的巨大热情,维芙百分之百的支持着丈夫,甚至充当了女秘书的角色。
简介:这是一部以真实故事为基础的虚构剧集,背景为编剧James Graham本人成长的一个诺丁汉郡矿业村。故事聚焦两起惊人的谋杀案,谋杀案导致本就分裂的社区彻底破碎,并引发了英国史上最大型的追捕行动之一。当地警局的Ian St Clair督察和伦敦警察厅的Kevin Salisbury,两人必须放下过去的竞争,共同侦破案件。人们普遍怀疑,这些死亡事件有可能激化了1980年代矿工罢工期间引发的历史性分歧,致使众多家庭破裂。