A Great Deliverance
An Inspector Lynley Mystery
Elizabeth George
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553052446
Published: May 1988
Synopsis: To this day, the low, thin wail of an
infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three
hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers
smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape
the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.
Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of
Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara
Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned
the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been
found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone
barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last
words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry."
Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark
labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a
shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this
tranquil English valley--and in their own lives as well.
Note: First book in the Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers mystery series.
A Great Deliverance
Richard Laxton, Director
Nathaniel Parker: Insp. Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small: Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers
Anthony Calf: Simon St James
Amanda Ryan: Deborah St James
Emma Fielding: Helen Clyde
Original Release Date: 2002
DVD Release Date: 7/29/2003
Source: WGBH Boston
Format: DVD Letterbox
Aspect Ratio: Theatre Wide-Screen (1.85.1)
Presentation: Letterbox
Sound: Dolby Digital
Features: Virtual tour of the Mystery! studio; Q&A with Nathaniel
Parker and Sharon Small; Cast filmographies; Dianna Rigg biography;
Access to the Mystery! web site; Scene selection; Closed captions and
video description
Language: English
Time: 3 Hours
