Given just days to live, a Victorian policeman is ready to make his final confession.

He's set to candidly reveal his involvement in a murder case in London many years before.

When he was a young police constable, a woman burst in with news of a gruesome killing...

Detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1881.

Read in two parts by Ronald Pickup.

Producer: Joanne Reardon

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in October 2003. Show less