Series 5
12 episodes · Aug 5, 1996
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- S5E1
The Silent Witness
Aug 5, 199630mJan 1926; Kathleen Smith meets Jack Derham but her husband Frank is determined to win her back.
- S5E2
The Great Romancer
Aug 5, 199630m1919; Arthur Goslett has two wives, Evelyn and Daisy. Daisy confronts him and he decides to murder Evelyn.
- S5E3
Ring of Truth
Aug 12, 199630m1865; Adolf Beck is identified as swindler John Smith. He is sentenced to twelve years. His name is finally cleared in 1907.
- S5E4
The Golden Goose
Aug 12, 199630m1909; George Storrs fears for his life but the police fail react to a ringing bell and he is found dead.
- S5E5
Murder of a Memsahib
Aug 19, 199630mSept 1911; Frances Orme was found dead at the Savoy, in Lucknow. Her friend Eva Stephens is put on trial for poisoning her.
- S5E6
A Place of Execution
Aug 19, 199630m1884; John Lee was due to hang for the murder of Emma Keyse but on three occasions it failed.
- S5E7
An Evil Business
Aug 26, 199630m1560; Queen Elizabeth I's close friendship Robert Dudley is frowned on. When Dudley's wife dies, scandal threatens the monarchy.
- S5E8
Dearest Pet
Aug 26, 199630m1855 Glasgow; Madeleine Smith is the prime suspect in the murder of Emile L'Angelier, a man considered outside of her class, but whom she had an illicit affair with. L'Angelier is murdered with arsenic, arsenic that Smith was known to purchase.
- S5E9
Who's Sorry Now?
Oct 4, 199630mJan 1928; Harry Pace dies of arsenic poisoning. His wife Beatrice was released due a lack of evidence and the possibility Harry killed himself.
- S5E10
The Woman in Grey
Oct 4, 199630mFebruary 1882; Esther Pay is tried for poisoning Georgina Moore but acquitted due to faulty evidence.
- S5E11
The Monster of Reading
Oct 11, 199630m1929; American stage actor Philip Yale Drew is accused of murdering a tobacconist, in Reading but he claims to have no memory.
- S5E12
The Letter Killeth
Oct 11, 199630mAugust 1908; Major General Charles Luard is the prime suspect when his adored and much loved wife Daisy is killed. Charles receives a string of poison pen letters, and is driven to a tragic act.