When a young seminary student is smothered to death, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is summoned to a scenic coastal college where he reveals an unholy litany of sinister motives lurking beneath the surface of piety and penance.
Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen), reluctantly on duty in a quiet English town, fights his own battle against murder, mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England during World War II.
MYSTERY!'s summer crime wave continues with a series of petty offenses tackled by the redoubtable Hetty Wainthropp. Patricia Routledge ("Keeping Up Appearances") returns as the gumshoe with gumption, teamed with doting husband Robert (Derek Benfield) and teenaged sidekick Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings).
This summer, Colin Dexter's cranky Inspector Morse - played impeccably by John Thaw - returns with two repeat broadcasts: "Masonic Mysteries"and "The Infernal Serpent."
Supersleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford join Miss Marple to investigate two disappearances and an unsolved murder.
Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small star as Elizabeth George's detective duo, Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers. He is suave, sophisticated and rich. She is rumpled, resentful and working class. Some of this inevitably gets in the way as they team up to solve four baffling murders.
Lynley and Havers solve the mysterious death of cricket's star batsman; the abduction of a diplomat's daughter; a murder near Lynley's family estate; and a suspicious death traced to a human trafficking ring.
Encore: August 14-September 4, 2005, 9:00 p.m. ET
MYSTERY! host Dame Diana Rigg stars in four new episodes of "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries," based on the whimsical whodunits by Gladys Mitchell.
The perfect crime, committed by two perfect amateurs.
The murder investigation of a young Jamaican leads to accusations of police incompetence.
