Tuesday 6 June 2017

703 Cover Her Face



First  viewed : March  1985

Another  partly-glimpsed  serial  from  the  first  half  of  1985, Cover  Her  Face  was    ITV's  third   P.D. James  adaptation  with  Roy  Marsden  as  poetry-loving  detective  Adam  Dalgleish. This  one  had  a  particularly  convoluted  plot  shifting  from  the  murder  of  a  Cypriot  drug  dealer  that  Dalgleish  was  already  investigating  in  London  to  the  country  mansion  of  the  Maxie  family  living  a  highly  anachronistic  lifestyle  for   the  1980s. The  connecting  link,  or  one  of  them  at  least , was  Sally  Jupp   ( Kim  Thomson ) a  single  mother  and  scheming  minx  who  doesn't  make  it  to  the  final  episode. Life  On  Mars 's  Philip  Glenister  had  an  early  role  as  her  bumpkin  patsy.

I  came  in  about  halfway  through  and  was  intrigued  enough  to  see  it  through  to  the  end  where  the  murderer,  as  usual,  turned  out  to  be  the  least  likely  suspect.

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