He adapted Julian Barnes' novel. Stuart Orme directed. Martin Clunes energetically plays Conan Doyle who gets involved in a rural criminal case where solicitor Arsher Ali has served jail time for mutilating horses - he's obviously innocent as the local police are obviously prejudiced. But the original true story then wanders into fiction, for example involving a major criminal that Ali has met in prison and a delinquent teenager - quite a Doyle-ish plot, really.
We never do discover why Ali sleeps in the same toom as his father (Art Malik), which is annoying.
With Charles Edwards (The Crown), Hattie Morohan, Emma Fielding, Conleth Hill as racist sergeant.
Photographed in the extreme diffusion style by Suzie Lavelle. Music by Rob Lane. Reasonably diverting in three 45 minute episodes for ITV.
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