FAINTLEY SPEAKING

COLD, LONE AND STILL

Comrie and Hera set out along the West Highland Way in Scotland to test their compatibility before getting married. Lost on the misty moors they come across the body of a murdered man.

CONVENT ON STYX

When psychiatrist and sleuth Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley is summoned to a convent to investigate a series of anonymous letters, the prime suspect is found drowned.

DEATH AT THE OPERA

Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school performance and, in recognition of her generous offer to finance the production, their meek and self-effacing arithmetic mistress is offered a key role. But when she disappears mid-way through the opening night performance and is later found dead, unconventional psychoanalyst and sleuth Mrs Bradley is called in to investigate. To her surprise she soon discovers that the hapless teacher had quite a number of enemies - all with a motive for murder...

DEATH-CAP DANCERS

A member of a folk-dance group is killed on the Yorkshire moors. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley comes into the case when a second dancer is killed and a third seriously injured.