The Wolvercote Tongue

Summary

Laura Poindexter, a rich American tourist, dies in the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, apparently from a heart attack, but Morse suspects foul play. Laura was due to return a historic jewel to an Oxford museum, and it has gone missing. Then Dr Kemp, who is a womanizing historian, dies of a fall, Lucy Downes is crushed to death in a telephone box, and Dr Kemp's widow appears to take a fatal overdose of Paracetomol.Morse believes the deaths are all linked.

Guest stars

• Christine Norden as Laura Poindexter
• Kenneth Cranham as Cedric Downes
• Mildred Shay as Janet Roscoe
• Christine Kavanagh as Lucy Downes
• Robert Arden as Eddie Poindexter
• Simon Callow as Theodore Kemp