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Inspector Lynley - Set 1

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593751210
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 1593751214
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Running Time: 360 minutes
Sales Rank: 8658
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: September 07, 2003

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Related Items:

• Inspector Lynley - Set 2
• Inspector Lynley - A Great Deliverance
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Set 3
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Set 5
• Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Set 4
• see more

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Love, life and murder. Just a few of Inspector Lynley’s mysteries.

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries feature the most celebrated British detective duo in years: Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small). Over the course of more than 10 intriguing Elizabeth George novels, beginning with A Great Deliverance, Lynley and Havers have won millions of loyal fans. It’s no mystery why.

Decidedly uppercrust detective Lynley and his partner Havers endure a marriage made at police headquarters. Lynley is suave, sophisticated, and the eighth Earl of Asherton. Havers is rumpled, resentful, and working class—with an inborn dislike of the highborn. Despite their differences, the sleuths evolve into a potent team, employing their cunning, intuition, and street smarts to unravel some of the most heinous—and suspenseful—crimes.

Well-Schooled In Murder When a student from prestigious Bredgar Hall is found dead under bizarre circumstances, Lynley receives a call from an old school chum asking for help. The Inspector and Havers soon discover hints of impropriety among both masters and students and race to crack the case before more students come into harm’s way.

Payment in Blood A playwright is murdered in her sleep on the eve of her new play’s debut, forcing Lynley and Havers to select from an entire cast of suspects. The mysterious drama is further complicated by Lynley’s deepening feelings for a woman involved with the play’s director, who is himself a prime suspect.

For The Sake Of Elena The fog lifts over the green hills of Cambridge, revealing the lifeless body of a prominent professor’s daughter, a young woman admired for being fun-loving, popular, daring—and deaf. The mystery is far from academic as Lynley and Havers discover fatal twists that sealed the fate of one dysfunctional family.

Missing Joseph A rural vicar is the victim of hemlock poisoning. Lynley and Havers discover that everyone from the local herbalist and her troubled teenage daughter to the local constable has a motive. The duo combs the countryside sifting for clues, and finally uncovers the secrets behind the murder.

Special DVD features include: virtual tour of the Mystery! studio; Q&A with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small; selected cast filmographies; selected cast list; biography for Diana Rigg, host of Mystery!; bibliography for Elizabeth George; selected cast list; link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.

On fourDVD9 discs. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.

Amazon.com:
As Diana Rigg, the host of Mystery!, the venerable PBS series which premiered these films, observes, Inspector Lynley gives his partner, Barbara Havers, class, while she gives him nothing but grief. That's not quite the case, although by the final episode in this four-part series, they can be heard bantering like David and Maddie from Moonlighting. And what is that tentatively wistful look on Havers' face while Lynley regards his relationship with an unrequited love? The Inspector Lynley Mysteries reunites author Elizabeth George's mismatched partners first introduced onscreen in A Great Deliverance. Nathaniel Parker (Eddie Murphy's ghostly host in The Haunted Mansion) stars as Lynley, Oxford-educated detective, and eighth earl of Asherton. Sharon Small costars as Havers, a working class cop. Their class differences and personal prejudices are well delineated in 'Well Schooled in Murder,' set at a posh boarding school where a young student has been slain, and 'For the Sake of Elena,' which investigates the death of a Cambridge Universty professor's deaf daughter.

The other two cases are more intriguingly personal, as Lynley is reunited with lifelong friend Helen Clyde. In 'Payment in Blood,' she is one of a cast of suspects when a playwright is slaughtered. In 'Missing Joseph,' she returns as a profiler, who assists Lynley in the case of a poisoned vicar. We also see the softer side of Havers as she deals with her increasingly senile mother. While fans of George's books may regret the abridgements necessary to bring each episode in at 90 minutes, mystery buffs will enjoy the contemporary spin on classic genre conventions, and Lynley and Havers' prickly relationship, which is at the heart of the series. --Donald Liebenson




Rating: - a delicate character study
This series has great writing. However, a lot of the plot is what Hitchcock would call the "maguffin" ... Read More

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Rating: - Inspector Lynley set 1
I thought that Inspector Lynley was truly a masterpiece when the series was shown on Masterpiece Theater ... Read More

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Rating: - Inspector Lynley Series - First Set
I knew ahead of ordering this DVD that I would enjoy it immensely because I had already viewed the four mysteries ... Read More

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Rating: - Partnership in Crime...
"The Inspector Lynley Mysteries-Set 1" picks up where the pilot movie "A Great Deliverance" left off, as aristocratic ... Read More

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Rating: - Wonderful
I am looking forward to purchase all the Sets of Inspector Lynley. They are wonderful.

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