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8 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
56 mins
When elderly Harriet Huntingforest is attacked by an intruder who flees empty-handed Campion links the incident to the fact that she is aunt to the three young Fitton siblings, whose family once tried to prove a claim to a title which would give them the throne of the Dalmatian state of Averna. Posing as tourists he and Lugg arrive in the village of Pontisbright to stay with the family. A further intrusion leads Campion to confront wealthy tycoon Brett Savanake, who also wants the papers which will give him the Avernan crown and who has Campion shanghaied.
Episode 2
55 mins
Savanake's heavies arrive in Pontisbright whilst the Fittons finally discover the charter that could prove their claim, though it is stolen by Campion, who has escaped from Savanake. Lugg takes it to London to be authenticated and the Fittons seem closer to gaining the throne of Averna. First, however, they are invited to dinner with the sinister village doctor who may well be in Savanake's pay, whilst Savanake himself arrives in the village for a fight to the death with Campion.
Episode 3
54 mins
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.
Episode 4
55 mins
A second death occurs, that of Sutane's under-study, who had been playing the tricks on him to get out of the way so that he could take the lead role. Attracted to Sutane's wife Linda, Campion is not wholly convinced of Sutane's innocence until it is discovered that 'Squire' Mercer and Chloe Pye had once been a married couple and that she had come onto the scene to get back with him.
Episode 5
54 mins
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.
Episode 6
54 mins
Trying to prove his friend's innocence Campion makes several discoveries, including the fact that the murder was an exact copy of one in a book published by the Golden Quill. The dead man also had a mistress, who tells Campion that there was more than the one key to the basement and that Paul Brand had recently had one cut for himself. Plainly Brand was murdered because he had found out something about the William Congreve manuscript which somebody wanted keeping quiet.
Episode 7
53 mins
On a transatlantic liner Campion saves the life of American Judge Lobbett, who has been the victim of several attempts to kill him. His son Marlowe tells Campion he is being pursued by a vengeful gangster known as Simister, whose mob he imprisoned. Arriving in England Campion billets the judge, daughter Isopel and Marlowe with Giles and Biddy Pagett in their country home in East Anglia on a road called Mystery Mile. They are visited by Anthony Datchett,a sinister palmist who tells their fortunes and next day the local vicar, who spoke to Datchett, kills himself. Soon afterwards, having called in art dealer Alistair Barber to value one of Giles' paintings, the judge mysteriously disappears.
Episode 8
54 mins
Biddy Pagett is abducted and Campion learns from his London informant Thomas Knapp that Datchett, a known blackmailer, has got her, believing she knows where the judge is. Campion leads a rescue party which frees Biddy and Datchett and his gang are all arrested. Campion then confesses that he helped Judge Lobbett to disappear for his own safety but believes that the time is right for him to re-appear and act as bait to flush out and identify Simister. Having accomplished this, Campion has still to discover why the vicar committed suicide.