Masterpiece Mystery!

Inspector Lewis, Series II

Dark Matter

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 7:30PM & 10:30PM

Dark matter is the secret stuff that makes up much of the universe. It’s also the shocking stuff whispered about dons and students at Oxford, which Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway hear in excess as they try to get to the bottom of the suspicious fatal fall taken by Andrew Crompton, amateur astronomer and Master of Gresham College.

Crompton was obsessed with something having to do with the planet Venus. To hear tell, he was also obsessed with sex. But was his longtime mistress Dr. Ella Ransome, as claimed by the college’s head porter, Roger Temple? Or perhaps it was Roger’s wife, Babs, as alleged by Roger’s father, Ted, who is succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease and is Dr. Ransome’s patient. Or could it have been astronomy lecturer Lady Gwen Raeburn, who is unusually tearful about Crompton’s demise?
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