If you're a fan of old-fashioned, British-to-the-bone, period-set, BBC-produced murder mysteries, you'll probably find "Clouds of Witness" a cozy, comfortable delight. If you're not, you'll probably find it stuffy, stodgy and stagey. Me, I'm somewhere in the middle; I found it both engaging and plodding. It is divided into five chapters, each of which is basically designed to focus on and then eliminate a red herring, until we get to a rather disappointing resolution which is hardly worth nearly 4 hours of waiting for. But Ian Carmichael is lively and amiable as Lord Peter Wimsey, and he offsets some of the stodginess of the production, backed up by a fine British cast. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Clouds of Witness
