"Death of an Expert Witness" (1983)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Roy Marsden | as | Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh | | John Vine | as | DS John Massingham | | Barry Foster | as | Dr. Maxim Howarth | | Geoffrey Palmer | as | Dr. Edwin Lorimer | | Ray Brooks | as | Dr. Henry Kerrison | | Andrew Ray | as | Clifford Bradley | | Meg Davies | as | Domenica Howarth | | Malcolm Terris | as | DI Tom Doyle | | Brenda Blethyn | as | Angela Foley | | Fiona Walker | as | Stella Mawson, aka 'Star' | | John Bryans | as | Chief Supt. Mercer | | Ivor Roberts | as | Insp. Blakebrook | | Valerie Testa | as | Claire Easterbrook | | Stephen Thorne | as | Paul Middlemass | | Wendy Gifford | as | Anne Kernon | | Roy Marsden | as | Commander Adam Dalgliesh | | John Bryans | as | Chief Superintendent Mercer | | Ivor Roberts | as | Inspector Blakebrook | | Wendy Gifford | as | Anne Kerrison |
| | Crew list: | | Herbert Wise (Director) | | Robin Chapman (Writer) | | P.D. James (Writer) |
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Review
When Dr. Edwin Lorimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley, who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth, who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass, who needs money to buy a house but to whom Lorimer refused a loan. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information. |
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