For the Sake of Elena
An Inspector Lynley Mystery
Elizabeth George
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553081187
Published: July 1992
Synopsis: Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone
meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling
earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by
the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother
fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in
Cambridge--where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College--her
father and his second wife each had their own very different image of
the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical
and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to
achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every
morning, bludgeoned her to death.
Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university
calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and
his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied
world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide
murderous intentions.
For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive.
Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena
and on those people who appeared to know her best--from an unsavory
Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the
Deaf Students Union.
What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration
for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his
past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her
blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.
For the Sake of Elena
Richard Laxton, Director
Nathaniel Parker: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small: Detective Sgt. Barbara Havers
Samantha Baker: Elena Weaver
Cherie Lunghi: Sarah Gordon
Tim Pigott-Smith: Philip Weaver
James Hillier: Adam Jenn
June Watson: Mrs. Havers
Original Release Date: August 2003
DVD Release Date: 11/25/2003
Source: WGBH Boston
Format: DVD Letterbox
Aspect Ratio: Theatre Wide-Screen (1.78.1)
Presentation: Letterbox
Sound: Dolby Digital
Features: Virtual tour of the Mystery! studio; Q&A with Nathaniel
Parker and Sharon Small; Cast filmographies; Diana Rigg biography;
Access to the Mystery! web site; Scene selection; Closed captions and
video description
Language: English
Time: 360 Minutes
Note: Included as one of four DVDs in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Set 1.
