A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel. The news of rising young surgeon Stephen Maxie's sudden engagement comes as a bombshell to his family gathered at their Elizabethan manor house. But worse is to come. That night, Sally Jupp, unmarried mother and the household's recently recruited parlourmaid, is strangled in her bed. Detective Chief Inspector Dalgliesh, played by Robin Ellis, soon discovers there is no shortage of motives.

'Qualifies effortlessly for the top rank of latter-day fiction' - Sunday Times

The news of rising young surgeon Stephen Maxie's sudden engagement comes as a bombshell to his family

P.D.James, Crime, Thrillers, Detective