Volg inspecteur Alan Grant van Scotland Yard terwijl hij zich verdiept in ingewikkelde zaken in het hart van Londen. Elke aflevering presenteert nieuwe mysteries die zijn scherpe intellect en ontembare vastberadenheid op de proef stellen. Deze serie is een perfecte keuze voor fans van klassieke detectivefictie, met de nadruk op logische deductie en spannende ontknopingen. Dompel jezelf onder in een wereld van intriges en misdaad waar de waarheid wacht om ontdekt te worden.
Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto ...
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Betty Kane, a demure young woman, accuses them of kidnapping and abuse. It takes Robert Blair, solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair.
When a young strikingly handsome photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of one of his many female admirers.
A hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons.
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about 'the stones that walk' and 'the singing sand, ' which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor's orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder