Episode 1
The Wolvercote Tongue
1h 40m7.5 / 10
Laura Poindexter, a rich American tourist, dies in the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, apparently from a heart attack, but Morse suspects foul play. Laura was due to return a historic jewel to an Oxford museum, and it has gone missing. Then Dr Kemp, who is a womanizing historian, dies of a fall, Lucy Downes is crushed to death in a telephone box, and Dr Kemp's widow appears to take a fatal overdose of Paracetomol.Morse believes the deaths are all linked.
Episode credits
Directed by Alastair ReidWritten by Julian MitchellGuest stars Christine Norden, Kenneth Cranham, Mildred Shay, Christine Kavanagh, Robert Arden, Simon Callow
