Directed by:
John DaviesComposer:
Richard HarveyCast:
Roy Marsden, Penny Downie, Wendy Hiller, Bosco Hogan, Simon Ward, Kate Buffery, Oliver Ford Davies, Matthew Marsh, Gabrielle Lloyd, Fiona Fullerton, John Bown (more)Plots(1)
When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh for assistance.
Berowne's own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush.
Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn the informal investigation into an urgent assignment.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Roy Marsden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/280/164280124_92425c.jpg)
Roy Marsden
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Shroud for a Nightingale (1984) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
![Penny Downie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/198/163198234_5cf579.jpg)
Penny Downie
Australia
Best series:
The Crown (2016) (series)
Downton Abbey (2010) (series)
Silk (2011) (series)
![Wendy Hiller](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/381/164381948_864763.jpg)
Wendy Hiller
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (series)
![Bosco Hogan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188336_a7557f.jpg)
Bosco Hogan
Ireland
Best series:
Vikings (2013) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
The Borgias (2011) (series)
![Simon Ward](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/479/161479458_cd9faa.jpg)
Simon Ward
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
The Tudors (2007) (series)
Around the World in 80 Days (1989) (series)
![Kate Buffery](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/538/158538381_afe096.jpg)
Kate Buffery
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Midsomer Murders (1997) (series)
![Oliver Ford Davies](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/064/158064348_ea5684.jpg)
Oliver Ford Davies
Best series:
Game of Thrones (2011) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Catastrophe (2015) (series)
![Matthew Marsh](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/188/158188258_66ffc2.gif)
Gabrielle Lloyd
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
The Tenth Kingdom (2000) (series)
![Fiona Fullerton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/280/280017_cec5c9.jpg)
Fiona Fullerton
Nigeria
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Shaka Zulu (1986) (series)
Sweating Bullets (1991) (series)
John Bown
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Blakes 7 (1978) (series)
![Jack Watson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/430/160430092_c1f70f.gif)
Jack Watson
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
Rob Spendlove
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
![Patsy Byrne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/523/161523456_46e313.jpg)
Patsy Byrne
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
I, Claudius (1976) (series)
Blackadder (1983) (series)
Morag Hood
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Jane Eyre (1983) (series)
Bergerac (1981) (series)
Avril Elgar
UK
Best series:
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
![Derek Newark](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/345/161345753_7b266b.jpg)
Derek Newark
UK
Best series:
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series)
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
![Kevin Stoney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/399/161399304_b878c7.jpg)
Kevin Stoney
India
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
I, Claudius (1976) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
![John Ringham](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/443/161443972_5fa0b0.jpg)
John Ringham
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Are You Being Served? (1972) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Constance Chapman
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series)
A Taste for Death (1988) (series)