Rent Death of an Expert Witness (1983)
3.9 of 5 from 50 ratings
6h 1min
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- Synopsis:
When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer (Geoffrey Palmer), a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorrimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley (Andrew Ray), who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth (Barry Foster), who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass (Stephen Thorne), who had a fight with Lorrimer. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information. - Actors:
- Roy Marsden, Barry Foster, Ray Brooks, Ivor Roberts, Andrew Ray, Brenda Blethyn, Malcolm Terris, Chloe Franks, John Vine, Fiona Walker, Stephen Thorne, Valerie Testa, Meg Davies, John Bryans, Annabelle Lanyon, Geoffrey Palmer, Rhoda Lewis, Kate Lansbury, Wendy Gifford, Sheridan Ball
- Directors:
- Herbert Wise
- Producers:
- John Rosenberg
- Writers:
- Robin Chapman, P.D. James
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries, TV Thrillers
