An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Cordelia Gray is the reluctant owner of a ramshackle investigation agency following the suicide of her boss. Watching over her as she hunts down clues in the murky and sinister world of crime, is her straight-laced and intuitive office assistant Edith Sparshott.
- 1997-1999
- 2 seasons
- PBS
- Suspense, Drama
Cordelia Gray is the reluctant owner of a ramshackle investigation agency following the suicide of her boss. Watching over her as she hunts down clues in the murky and sinister world of crime, is her straight-laced and intuitive office assistant Edith Sparshott.
Season 2 Episode Guide
2 Episodes 1999
Episode 1
Living on Risk
49 mins
A client named Foster hires Cordelia to trace a young man he claims is out to kidnap his nephew. Against Edith's advice Cordelia shadows the lad but loses him at a flat where she discovers the body of young artist Dave Crawford. Though warned by the police to back off Cordelia traces Crawford's ex-girlfriend and through her gets to Lee,the man she was hired to follow and who is not the criminal she was told he was. Ultimately Cordelia finds that she has stumbled upon a plot involving stolen paintings and their forgery - the link with Dave Crawford - and finds herself and Lee's family at risk from the killer.
Episode 2
Playing God
Thu, Oct 28, 1999
A pregnant Cordelia is hired by Chief Inspector Fergusson to investigate Tim Bolton, a doctor who is dating his daughter Laura and of whom Fergusson disapproves. Bolton is also having an affair with his colleague's wife and soon afterwards he is stabbed to death. Following an anonymous tip-off from another police officer,Cordelia learns that Bolton's father was a policeman with Fergusson but, after a bungled job in which Bolton took the blame and Fergusson the glory, he committed suicide. Is Fergusson being black-mailed? Or is the distraught wife with whom he was having the affair out for revenge? Or maybe Laura is not as innocent as she seems.