Thu, Feb 22, 1990
At the Golden Quill publishing house Paul Brand is at odds with his partners the Barnabas cousins - notably stuffy senior partner John - over publication of a rare manuscript by William Congreve. Then he is found murdered, locked in the firm's basement with a hose piping poisonous car fumes through a hole in the window. Michael Barnabas, a friend of Campion, is in love with the dead man's wife who, at the inquest, makes it clear that she and her husband were filing for divorce. Consequently Michael is charged with the murder.
Thu, Feb 8, 1990
Jimmy Sutane, a popular musical comedy star, is to appear in a show based on a book by a friend of Campion's. He is also being plagued by a series of practical jokes that are beginning to undermine his self-confidence and asks Campion to his house, White Walls, to investigate. Associates of Sutane and his wife Linda number 'Squire' Mercer, a talented musician and Chloe Pye, a washed-up actress. When Chloe is run over and killed by Jimmy Sutane in his car he swears it was an accident, but others are not so sure.