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P.D. James (novel)
Robert Jones (screenplay)
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31 October 2004 (Australia) more
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Plot:
The lease on the Dupayne Museum is almost up and under the terms of their father's will, all three of... more | add synopsis
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Gripping more (7 total)

Cast

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Martin Shaw ... Adam Dalgliesh
Janie Dee ... Emma Lavenham
Samantha Bond ... Caroline Dupayne
Kerry Fox ... Muriel Godby
Siân Phillips ... Marie Strickland
Michael Maloney ... Neville Dupayne
Nicholas Le Prevost ... Marcus Dupayne (as Nicholas le Prevost)
Jack Shepherd ... James Calder-Hale
Anita Carey ... Tally Clutton
Tilly Blackwood ... DI Kate Miskin
William Beck ... DI Piers Tarrant
Sid Mitchell ... Ryan Archer
Lisa Kay ... Angela Faraday
Kate Alderton ... Sara Dupayne
Lesley Vickerage ... Clara
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180 min (2 parts)
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While on location, the school children extras were kept in a hired bus with a radiation heater because there were so few of them. more

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18 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Gripping, 11 January 2005
Author: pawebster from England

Old P D James keeps the books coming and in no time they are on TV. This is a gripping story and is as good as her others.

It's all about a privately run museum, which has a room about murders of the past. People start getting bumped off in ways which resemble some of the earlier crimes.

It's well acted, but I found it hard to accept Martin Shaw in the lead role as Dalgleish. He seemed physically wrong for it -- too much of an ox for the poet Dalgleish. His two assistants also appeared to be lightweight and rather too young to be inspectors. They had to do mundane work that I would have thought would be done by lower ranks.

The subplot about Dalgleish's attempt to woo a girlfriend is a bit of a distraction and not well integrated into the rest of the story.

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