In Suspicious Circumstances

The death of a man on 12 August 1926 in a seaside villa in Whitstable. An old Etonian playboy, Frank Smith, visits his wife who had left him after he squandered their fortune. During the night there is a shot, and his old friend, Jack Derham, has been killed.

The story of Arthur Goslett, a South African who settled in London shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. He married a widow and joined the Royal Naval Air Service. But he was suspected of spying for the Germans and was thrown out of the service after being found guilty of bigamy. His past finally caught up with him when one of the women in his life was found murdered. He claimed that another woman forced him to do it.

The case of John Smith, who was accused of posing as Lord Wilton de Willoughby, a smooth talking aristocrat, in order to steal watches and jewellery from unsuspecting ladies. The man identified as John Smith/Lord Willoughby denied all knowledge of the crimes.

The wealthy Victorian Northern industrialist George Harry Storrs. In 1909, an armed intruded broke into his house and someone was killed. The police made an arrest, but in spite of four eye witnesses to the murder and two separate murder trials, the case remained unsolved.

The story of a medium who exerts an unhealthy influence over an heiress travelling to Imperial India.

The tale of John Lee, who experienced a premonition on the eve of his execution.

The suspicious death which drove a wedge between Queen Elizabeth I and her lover Lord Robert Dudley.

A society scandal in Victorian Glasgow. A wealthy architect wanted his beautiful eldest daughter Madeleine Smith to marry well. A suitable suitor was found for her and they became engaged. However, an impoverished clerk also had designs on the heiress. A suspicious death occurred just as the betrothal was about to be publicly announced.

The death of a member of a sheep farmer's family in the Forest of Dean in 1928. The father of the family was a violent and angry man, but it was not clear if the death was murder or suicide. Researchers for this programme uncovered a confession that was sent to the authorities at the time, and the name at the bottom is revealed.

A murder in Victorian London. Esther Pay endured a childless unhappy marriage to a violent drunken man, but had an affair with a married man who lodged in her house. When her husband discovered the affair, her lover abandoned her for another woman. A body is discovered on Esther's doorstep, but it is unclear if she was capable of murder to avenge her betrayal.

The trial of American actor Philip Yale Drew, who by his forties was losing his career and drinking whisky which was affecting his work and his memory. In 1929 he was playing the part of an undercover detective in a provincial tour when a shopkeeper was murdered not far from the theatre.

The tale of Major General Charles Luard and his wife Daisy who retired to the countryside after a long and distinguished career, but became the victim of a writer of malicious letters.