A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery - Season 1

First aired: 3/24/1987 10 episodes

A gentleman sleuth solves mysteries and falls in love with a detective novelist.

← Back to A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

Episodes

1. Strong Poison: Episode One

Aired: 3/24/1987

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates after the novelist Harriet Vane is accused of poisoning her former lover.

2. Strong Poison: Episode Two

Aired: 3/31/1987

Lord Peter asks Miss Murchison to go undercover has a secretary at Norman Urquhart's law firm. She learns he was illegitimate and now paying for a nurse to care for his mother. Insp. Parker confirms Philip Boyes was definitely poisoned.

3. Strong Poison: Episode Three

Aired: 4/7/1987

Lord Peter asks his secretary Miss Climpson to find out what Urquhart's nurse Miss Booth knows. Faking a seance Miss Booth admits that Urquhart has forged Philip Boyes Will to make him the sole beneficiary but can Lord Peter break him.

4. Have His Carcase: Episode One

Aired: 4/14/1987

While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.

5. Have His Carcase: Episode Two

Aired: 4/21/1987

Mrs. Weldon says she intended to marry dancer Paul Alexis and believes he was murdered. Lord Peter tells journalist Salcombe Hardy that the owner of the razor was the murderer. Peter and Harriet attempt to recreate Alexis last movements.

6. Have His Carcase: Episode Three

Aired: 4/28/1987

Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his infatuation and her fragile state of mind. Looking for Mrs. Weldon's husband, Bunter has more questions than answers.

7. Have His Carcase: Episode Four

Aired: 5/5/1987

Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However his arranged meeting took place two hours before he died and witness Jem Pollock only saw Alexis meet with a young woman.

8. Gaudy Night: Episode One

Aired: 5/12/1987

While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.

9. Gaudy Night: Episode Two

Aired: 5/19/1987

Harriet Vane continues her research into the odd goings on her old college. She is attacked and knocked unconscious while investigating someone playing the organ in the college chapel in the middle of the night.

10. Gaudy Night: Episode Three

Aired: 5/26/1987

The prowler evades Harriet but leaves hairpin. Peter is asked to look over the evidence but Harriet is left flat when he follows an inquiry without her. Miss Devine's tale of an academic faking his thesis points to someone with a grudge.