A poetry-writing detective solving murders with his brain, not his fists. British class with a body count.
Season 10 • Episode 2
LatestDalgliesh finds his investigations getting in the way of his romantic life, and also hampered by security services.
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
Acting
Roy Marsden's simmering restraint — feelings conveyed in eyebrow twitches.
Production
Glorious 80s BBC locations: manor houses, misty coasts, institutional dread.
Creator
P. D. James
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roy Marsden played Dalgliesh for 15 years across two separate series — the longest portrayal until Bertie Carvel's 2021 reboot.
P.D. James deliberately created Dalgliesh as the anti-Morse: emotionally controlled, professionally ascendant, and poetically inclined rather than musically mournful.
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