Deadly Slumber, by Daniel Boyle. A properly twisty one, this with Brian Cox sympathetic as a millionaire ex-bookie with a braid dead daughter in hospital who he cannot put down. And then the maddest and most far-fetched of the entire series, The Day of the Devil, in which escaped devil worshipper Keith Allen keeps changing his appearance every two minutes without any explanation of who's helping him... Quite fun, though!
With Harriet Walter and some strong women opinion. Daniel Boyle was responsible.
And in Twilight of the Gods, an opera singer is shot. Morse learns not to meet his idols as they are not exalted creative beings but as compromised as the rest of us. John Gielgud is enormous fun to watch. Robert Hardy's Lithuanian accent is disastrous. Didn't recognise the talented Allan Corduner as the pianist. With Rachel Weisz, Jean Anderson (who we've just seen in the 1979 Lady Vanishes). Julian Mitchell wrote it.
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