A Killing on the Exchange

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Carl Sillmans, a merchant banker firm midway through an expected merger with Dinslow Chemical Industries, is thrown into turmoil when its manager, Charles Makepeace, is found murdered in his locked office. His flask had been poisoned, and as Superintendent Thorne investigates, he finds there are a surprising number of people who may have wanted him dead. His wife Isobel, for example, who they learn he was planning to divorce for his mistress Stella Tyson. Then there is his work colleague, John Field, who learned that day he was to be turned down for promotion, preferring an American arriving later that day, Dan Maitland, son of a rival banking firm. And then there was the mysterious threatening phone call he received the evening he died that suggests something far darker was going on at the merchant bankers than anyone realized.