Death of an Expert Witness (1983)

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Country: UK
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1983-04-08
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: English
Stars: Roy Marsden , Barry Foster , Ray Brooks , Ivor Roberts , John Vine , John Vine , Andrew Ray , Brenda Blethyn , Malcolm Terris , Chloe Franks , Fiona Walker (I)
Runtime: 50 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Døden i laboratoriet (Norway) , Ett expertvittnes död (Sweden) , Death of an Expert Witness (Singapore) , P.D. James: Death of an Expert Witness (Australia) , Death of an Expert Witness (Japan) , Death of an Expert Witness , Death of an Expert Witness (United Kingdom) , Mord på laboratoriet (Denmark) , Mord i laboratoriet (Norway)
Plot: When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorrimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley, who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth, who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass, who had a fight with Lorrimer. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information.
IMDB:tt0206478