The Last Detective
9.00 Friday
13th Feb ITV1
First in a new four part series of the comedy drama series based on characters from Leslie Thomas’s novels following the misadventures of the hapless detective, Dangerous Davies starring Peter Davison as the bumbling detective.
Christine
Maurice Leyman, a wealthy artist, is found dead following a fire at his studio
in the grounds of his luxury home. When closer 
inspection
reveals that he was killed by a blow to the head rather than smoke inhalation,
suspicion falls on his wife Christine who stands to gain everything from his
will, has a history of using men for financial gain, and whose alibi fails
to stand up under scrutiny.
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over four million copies.
New
Books by Leslie Thomas at Amazon.co.uk 
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