Crime Story

Episode 2

Wallpaper Warrior

A dramatization of incidents involving Eddie Horner, a factory worker active in union politics radicalized to murder.

Episode 3

Deadly Obsession

A dramatization of a murder resulting in the conviction of businesswoman Kathleen Calhaem, involving unrequited love, jealousy, and blackmail.

Episode 4

Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs. Muriel McKay

Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.

Episode 5

The Britoil Affair

A couple's cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million, by transferring money from the British company's accounts into accounts at a Swiss bank.

Episode 6

A Question of Identity

Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.

Episode 7

Dear Roy, Love Gillian

A 16 year-old girl becomes a pen pal to an incarcerated convict, and her subsequent murder may or may not be linked to their on-paper romance.