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Dalgliesh

Dalgliesh
★ 6.7/10•2021•16+•Crime•Drama•Mystery
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A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

StatusReturning Series
LanguageEN
First Air DateNov 4, 2021

Episodes

Episode 1 - Shroud for a Nightingale (1)E145m

Shroud for a Nightingale (1)

January 1975. Student nurse Heather Pearce dies during a training demonstration. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate, accompanied by his partner DS Masterson. Pathologist Dr. Chopra confirms that Pearce was poisoned. Dalgliesh and Masterson take statements from the nurses, despite Matron’s attempts to intercede.

Nov 4, 2021

Episode 2 - Shroud for a Nightingale (2)E245m

Shroud for a Nightingale (2)

After Fallon’s death, Dalgliesh finds a library book in Fallon’s room and a letter in Pearce’s pigeonhole about a patient of Courtney-Briggs’ called Martin Dettinger, whose recent death on the hospital ward upset her. He later discovers rose spray, which Chopra confirms was used to poison Fallon. In the woods Dalgliesh is violently attacked.

Nov 5, 2021

Episode 3 - The Black Tower (1)E345m

The Black Tower (1)

March 1975. Dalgliesh is invited to Dorset by his old friend Father Michael, only to discover that he died a few days ago. Father Michael lived in a home for the disabled run by the enigmatic Wilfred, who has organised trips to Lourdes ever since he was miraculously cured there of a serious illness.

Nov 11, 2021

Episode 4 - The Black Tower (2)E445m

The Black Tower (2)

Wilfred announces that he will transfer the Grange to the Ridgewell Trust and hold a vote on whether he will carry on as spiritual adviser. Maggie threatens to down the ‘whole rotten place’. Despite Eric and Helen’s plot to usurp Wilfred, the majority of the Grange vote for Wilfred to stay, ensuring the Lourdes trips will continue.

Nov 12, 2021

Episode 5 - A Taste for Death (1)E545m

A Taste for Death (1)

May 1975. 8-year-old Darren and churchwarden Miss Wharton find two dead bodies in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington, their throats slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Tory MP; the other a homeless man called Harry Mack. Dalgliesh is called in to investigate, accompanied by DS Masterson and his new DS Kate Miskin.

Nov 18, 2021

Episode 6 - A Taste for Death (2)E645m

A Taste for Death (2)

After the attack on Father Barnes while Halliwell was in custody, Dalgliesh brings Swayne and Lampart in for questioning. He discovers Lampart is having an affair with Lady Barbara, who reveals she is pregnant and thinks she will inherit everything. However, Lady Lavinia reveals that Sir Paul secretly changed his will at the last minute.

Nov 19, 2021

Actors

Bertie Carvel

Bertie Carvel

Adam Dalgliesh

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