Stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James McLevy. A high court judge is dead and suspicion falls on his wife. Her alleged adultery with a fashionable portrait painter suggests a strong motive for murder, but she protests her innocence and turns to McLevy for help. McLevy ...... Brian Cox Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell Roach ...... David Ashton Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil Boothroyd ...... Andrew Clark Judith ...... Emma Currie Dunsmore ...... Simon Tait Alec ...... Steven McNicoll Minnie ...... Irene Allan Directed by Patrick Rayner.