Drawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand novelist Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this BBC series.

故事发生在1914年的英国，维芙（米兰达·理查森 Miranda Richardson 饰）邂逅了名为艾略特（威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰）的男子，此时的艾略特只是在牛津莫顿大学研究现代派诗的青年学生，一见钟情的两人很快就携手步入了婚姻的殿堂，婚后，艾略特展现出了对于写作的巨大热情，维芙百分之百的支持着丈夫，甚至充当了女秘书的角色。
随着时间的推移，艾略特在文坛里的名声渐渐增加，而他和维芙之间的感情却产生了裂痕。《荒原》的出版令艾略特抵达了他人生的第一个高峰，却也给艾略特和维芙的婚姻带来了致命的打击，维芙被诊断换上了神经失调症，遭到了监禁。

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell’s ideas have become our ideas; his fiction is often said to be our reality. The “definitive book of the 20th century” (The Guardian) is re-examined in a radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
以下媒体全给出五星的评价：
The Observer
The Times
Financial Times
Time Out
Whatsonstage

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell’s ideas have become our ideas; his fiction is often said to be our reality. The “definitive book of the 20th century” (The Guardian) is re-examined in a radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
以下媒体全给出五星的评价：
The Observer
The Times
Financial Times
Time Out
Whatsonstage

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a Pretty family member who tragically died in an accident 8 years ago both baffles and unsettles the family.

Private Dick Max Warner investigates the disappearance of a young heiress Sandra Applewhite. He is convinced that she was murdered by her fiancé - but without her body, he can not prove anything. So he sees a poster with a model who is an identical copy of Sandra. One by one the pieces are falling into place and Max realizes that much more than a legacy is at stake.

A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.

这是一个关于爱与死亡的黑色喜剧故事，但顺序未必如此。
朱莉是个温柔脆弱的年轻女子，缺乏自信，沉溺于对亡夫的美化回忆中。亚历克斯则是个愤怒的作家，才华横溢却无法重现处女作的成功，感到无话可说、无生可恋，一心求死。
命运让这两个迷失的灵魂在悬崖边相遇。朱莉采花时不慎跌落，正要开枪自杀的亚历克斯被她的呼救声打断。两人分开后，当朱莉偶然发现这位神秘救命恩人的身份时，他们的命运再次交织。从此，每当亚历克斯试图自杀，朱莉总在无意间阻挠。
然而好景不长，当朱莉发现亡夫的一个毁灭性秘密后，她也陷入绝望想要轻生。两人再次相遇是在精神病院，他们一起制定了自杀契约...然后逃了出去。电击、毒药、枪械...选择如此之多，却始终无法达成一致，直到朱莉灵光一现：尼亚加拉大瀑布！童年时她曾差点在那里溺亡，记得那是次"美妙体验"。
于是他们踏上了自杀之旅。但旅途充满荒诞转折、意外变故和致命障碍...

Peverell Press, respected London publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new management. Gerard Etienne, new yuppie CEO, wants to implement radical changes. Soon he is found dead under bizzare circumstances. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, policeman in charge of the investigation, is convinced that the reasons for the death lie in the sinister past.

Peverell Press, respected London publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new management. Gerard Etienne, new yuppie CEO, wants to implement radical changes. Soon he is found dead under bizzare circumstances. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, policeman in charge of the investigation, is convinced that the reasons for the death lie in the sinister past.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.