4x1 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part One

September 30, 1990

The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry. Wexford investigates the links between a charismatic singer and a young woman gone to the bad.

4x2 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part Two

October 7, 1990

4x3 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part Three

October 14, 1990

4x4 - The Best Man to Die: Part One

October 21, 1990

Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about cheating husbands, loose women and gangsters.

4x5 - The Best Man to Die: Part Two

October 28, 1990

4x6 - The Best Man to Die: Part Three

November 4, 1990

4x7 - An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One

November 11, 1990

Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.

4x8 - An Unkindness of Ravens: Part Two

November 18, 1990

4x9 - Put on by Cunning

December 24, 1990

When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so.