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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
- Created by:
- Elizabeth George
- Cast:
- Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Paul Hickey
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- BBC One
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Seasons
Series 4
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.2In Divine Proportion
2005-03-17 · 90mHavers gets back to work after being shot and is assigned to a case in rural Suffolk, where a young woman has been murdered with a shot gun. Lynley is worried about the effect the case will have on Havers. Then a photograph of the murdered woman arguing with a man is sent to the police, and a mysterious word is painted on the wall of the crime scene - it seems as if someone is trying to give the team some clues. As a result, they uncover a dark secret that villagers have kept quiet for years. In a final confrontation, Havers has to face down her fear of being back in the line of fire.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.8In the Guise of Death
2005-03-24 · 90mHavers is on holiday in Cornwall, learning Akido, and Lynley is also in the county to visit his mother, when a local horse trainer is found hanged in a stable on the estate next to Lynley's. The dead man's money troubles suggest suicide, but then Lynley finds he had links with smuggling. Another lead suggests that the killer may be uncomfortably close to home. As the case develops, Lynley has to think out where his future lies - with the police, or managing his own property?
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E03
Episode 3
★ 8.0The Seed of Cunning
2005-03-31 · 90mLynley and Havers investigate the killing of a porter at the House of Lords. At first it looks as if the murder may be connected to the dead man's gambling debts, but then a senior clerk is also murdered, with evidence of a conspiracy involving stolen test reports on a new missile system. Havers traces the missing documents, but then she finds she and Lynley are both being followed...
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.6The Word of God
2005-04-07 · 90mThe frozen body of a man is found on a meat truck in London's Smithfield Market, and on the body are a forged British passport and an Arabic manuscript on a page of vellum. The dead man appears to be an illegal immigrant - but was his death accidental? The manuscript turns out to be a page of an ancient Koran, hugely valuable. And Lynley finds himself locking horns with Inspector Brennan, of the Metropolitan Police's immigration department...
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Nathaniel Parker
Inspector Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small
Sergeant Barbara Havers
Paul Hickey
Lafferty
