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A Taste for Death

ITV1 Ended Drama Crime Mystery

1 Season · 6 Episodes · Premiered December 17, 2014 · Ended November 18, 1988

Sir Paul Berowne - a prominent Government Minister - turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home. The minister's wife is in an adulterous affair with a prominent surgeon and she makes no secret of it. Berowne's only daughter is involved in left-wing politics and rejects her conservative father. Adding to his woes, his own mother favoured her son who was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush over Paul. The informal investigation has barely began when Dalgliesh is faced with a series of bizarre deaths that turn the case into an urgent assignment.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Fri, Oct 14 1988 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Commander Adam Dagliesh is given the job of setting up the Sensitive Crimes Squad, and faces an immediate challenge when Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne consults him about threatening letters. Soon Berowne's strange behaviour is alarming his associates and his aristocratic family. 
E02
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 21 1988 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Threatened by anonymous letters that link him to the drowning of an out-of-work actress, Sir Paul Berowne has resigned from the government, quarrelled with his family, and taken refuge in a seedy London church.
E03
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 28 1988 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
The bizarre death of Sir Paul Berowne has brought his family's problem out into the open as Dalgliesh questions the household to try and determine whether it was murder or suicide. 
E04
Episode 4
Fri, Nov 4 1988 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
The death of Theresa Nolan, a nurse in the Berowne household, causes Dalgliesh's investigations to move closer to the family. Berowne's mother, Lady Ursula, now chooses to reveal a secret which she has been keeping for her son.
E05
Episode 5
Fri, Nov 11 1988 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Dalgliesh traces Paul Berowne's mistress but he suspects that she is hiding the truth.
E06
Episode 6
Fri, Nov 18 1988 9:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Piece by piece Dalgliesh is putting together the jigsaw of clues behinf Sir Paul Berowne's death.

Cast

Roy Marsden
Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh
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