描写了一件争夺遗产的诉讼案,由于司法人员从中营私、徇讦,竟使得案情拖延二十年。在一个偶然机会里,男爵夫人的私生女艾瑟‧萨莫森被那一群律师得知,于是追根究柢的律师借此威胁男爵夫人,甚至整死一名流浪少年,男爵夫人被迫离家出走,死于一场暴风雪。其中一名律师被他所利用的人杀害。这二十年期间申诉者居住在荒凉山庄,主人约翰‧詹狄士成为一对表兄妹的监护人,等待法官做最后的判决,最后整笔遗产正好全数支付有关的法律诉讼费用,跟诉讼案有关的人死的死,发疯的发疯。
本剧根据查尔斯·狄更斯的同名小说改编,原著是司法小说的经典。
Nervous teacher Connie Bishop is annoying the neighbours with her constant cries that there is an intruder in her house until Jim Hanley is murdered in her garden. Rich bitch Zukie Richardson tells the police Jim was 'obsessed' with Connie and Jim's reasons for leaving the Frobisher Night Committee, organizers of an annual charity auction subsidised by Zukie's husband,retired e...
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Hercule Poirot is bored to tears and with three weeks since his last case, is worried that his little gray cells will stop working. Captain Hastings suggest a evening at the theater to see the latest murder mystery but even that doesn't help when Poirot finds the plot to be absurd. On their return home to Whitehaven Mansions, they learn that the new occupant of the flat two flo...