Adrian Shergold

In Heat of the Sun's three episodes, Albert Tyburn, a brash former Scotland Yard detective transplanted to Kenya for a new assignment, applies a somewhat less-than-saintly approach to bringing murderers to justice.

"In a spoof of the great wartime escape movies, arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester, who has 23 escape attempts to his name and zero escapes, plans the Big One, the escape of all 327 prisoners from a POW camp in Germany. The only problem is he expects them to escape all at once"--Container.

Vera Stanhope, a caustic, disheveled investigator, solves murders in Northumberland, England.

Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick...

Inspector Morse investigates the apparent suicide of an elderly, ailing professor and finds that the man's widow is his former fiance.