民国年间，以制炮竹致富的大户人家唯一继承人春枝自小被当作男孩抚养，因此长大后仍然是长袍马褂的男装穿戴。族老们为防家产落入异姓人手上，在春枝父亲死后作出她永不得嫁人，否则无权继承产业的规定。青年画匠牛宝到春枝家做画，引起了…

Albie Kinsella is angry at the world. He has just buried his father who died from a prolonged bout with cancer. Albie was a good son who took care of his father all of that time. His wife left him several years before, b…

The police investigate the murder of a 13-year old boy who is found hanging in a tree in a nearby wood. The pathologist quickly determines that the boy was actually strangled and the hanging then staged. The boy was gay …

A tale of adultery, religion and perversity as Fitz attempts to unravel a strange murder case. Meanwhile, his wife, Judith, is about to split the family assets down-the-line, leaving Fitz and his son Mark to fend for the…

Dennis Philby owns his own company in Hong Kong and business has not been going well. Through his own incompetence he is going bankrupt and one of his customers offers to buy him out. At home, Dennis is thrilled that his…

After having sex with a prostitute, David Harvey kills her when he finds he is unable to pay and she threatens to tell his wife. The case becomes complicated however when a second prostitute is killed and the forensic ev…

Fitz, Penhaligon and the other officers at Anson Road C.I.D. attend Jimmy Beck’s funeral. Fitz meets Beck’s sister who asks him how her brother had gone so badly wr…

Fitz has to increase his lectures at several universities as he is broke. The attentions of one of his pupils leave him unaffected until he realises that she may be involved in murder and harming his family.