改编自2008年发表的同名小说（作者Kate Summerscale），曾获当年萨缪尔·约翰逊奖，该书描述了发生玉十九世纪英国的一桩著名案件。1860年，英国南部威尔特郡的一户上流人家的三岁小儿肯特于半夜失踪，在报案之后，警方在乡村别墅外面的室外厕所里发现了小孩的尸首。当地警方虽竭力找寻线索，但一无所获，于是向伦敦新成立的苏格兰场求助。苏格兰场派来的警探乔纳森·威彻介入案件调查，提出了全新的怀疑：会不会是这户人家里的某个人谋杀了小孩？各种隐情浮出水面，从保姆至小孩之父，无一不成为怀疑的对象。威彻尔最终坚信肯特同父异母的姐姐康斯坦斯就是凶手，但却找不到证据，也获取不到口供。案件由热转冷，威彻尔心灰意冷地返回伦敦。五年之后，犯人自首，交代出犯罪细节，接着进行了一场广为人知的审判。这一案件流传甚广，狄更斯、威尔基·柯林斯都曾在它的影响下进行创作。

故事发生在1860年一个炎热的夏天，午夜时分，一幢豪华精致的别墅之中，肯特一家人陷入了沉睡，谁也不知道，在夜幕的掩护之下，罪恶和鲜血正浸润着他们甜美的梦。隔日，肯特家里发生的凶杀案震惊的整个小镇，人们纷纷猜测，会有怎样隐秘黑暗的勾当发生在这冠冕堂皇的表象之下。

Whicher follows a married woman through the park in London, where she has a secret assignation with a man. They make their way to a hotel, where they dine and spend the night together as Whicher looks on, troubled. The following day, he heads out to a small town in Wiltshire, to visit Sir Henry Coverley, who has hired Whicher to follow his wife, Lady Jane suspecting her of infidelity.

惠彻受雇于前内政大臣爱德华·肖尔爵士，负责调查针对其儿子查尔斯的暴力威胁。查尔斯最近与家人从印度返回。

Crime drama featuring the pioneering 19th-century detective Jack Whicher. After leaving the Metropolitan Police, Whicher saves a respectable country lady from a violent robbery in a dangerous quarter of London. Susan Spencer is desperately hunting for her vulnerable niece Mary, who came to London in search of Stephen Gann, the young man who had made her pregnant. Susan commissions Jack Whicher as a private inquiry agent to find her niece and the young man. Soon, Whicher is irresistibly drawn into a disturbing and puzzling murder case, bringing him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throwing him into conflict with his former colleagues in the Metropolitan police. The investigation leads to a private lunatic asylum where Whicher himself must confront the darkness of his own demons.

一个吝啬的法国人为了给妻子一个惊喜而悄悄地买下了一幢向往的乡间别墅。但是不幸不断地降临，失业、卑鄙的房产中介、愚蠢的装修工人、被迫卖掉城里的公寓。。。法国人很喜欢这个电影，他们笑个不停。确实，影片中有很多笑料，表演也相当的出色。但是我有点笑不出来，因为这些笑料是以可笑的小人物的不幸为代价的。而且这个小人物对于我来说并不只可笑，而且可恨。以前有一个我不喜欢的性格刚强的人说过“凡可怜之人，必有可恨之处”。如果那个家伙不是过于吝啬也不会招妻子不快，如果不是他择友不慎也不会被同事坑害，如果不是他愚蠢也不会被房产中介玩弄于骨掌，如果不是他贪便宜也不会雇佣世界上最愚蠢的装修工人，如果不是他懦弱也不会厄运连连。世界上有很多不幸的人，但是这些不幸的人未必都可怜。而那些可怜的人，必定会不幸。我倒是希望看到小人物自强不息的故事。 其实几个主角的表演都是非常出色的。尤其是那个房产中介，一个惟妙惟肖的巧舌如簧的卑鄙小人。Michele Laroque所演的妻子也非常出色，看起来特别的舒服。甚至Dany Boon所扮演的可怜虫也是很精彩的。只是剧情让我不舒服。可能是因为这位Dany Boon是演话剧出身的，所以他导演的东西戏剧性太强了。

Four friends at a prestigious university whose promising futures are jeopardized when they become connected to the accidental death of a classmate. When another student says she knows about their involvement, the friends panic and start to plot her murder.

Marple is asked to help Gwenda, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Thanks to Miss Marple's investigations, Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory - and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman named "Helen".

一位新婚燕尔的年轻女子突然被人杀害了。究竟谁是凶手？是她的丈夫，还是她昔日的情人、仇人抑或情敌？一对喜欢侦探的青年决心将此事查个水落石出。他们私访知情者，调查当事人，几经曲折，数历危难，克服了有人故意设置的层层障碍，躲过了杀人者的冷枪暗箭，终于使事实真相大白与天下……

影片拍摄历时18个月，同一个警方重案组进行了前所未有的密切接触。这个充满戏剧性的三集系列节目展示了一个独特而缓缓展开的真实谋杀案，并将3个不同世界的故事交织在一起。影片对一个19岁的少年在2014年被无故杀害展开了追踪，描述了一名面对复杂案情的侦探、一个迫切希望正义得到伸张的悲伤家庭，以及另外一个愿意不惜一切代价拯救自己儿子免受牢狱之苦的家庭。该系列影片情节富有戏剧性，但是这是一个拥有深远影响的真实故事。