Cupid takes Miss Teatime and Commander Trelawney to the bank and into deep water.

Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles.

Why are lonely, well-off middle-aged women disappearing from the sleepy, small market town?

John Rowe stars as Inspector Walter Purbright.

Dramatised by Christopher Denys.

Insp Purbright .... John Rowe
Lucy Teatime .... Linda Gardner
Jack Trelawney .... John Branwell
Rev Leaper .... Renny Krupinski
Maddox .... Peter Rylands
Chief Constable .... Geoffrey Banks
Evelyn .... Susan Sheridan
Cambridge .... Nigel Carrington
Beech .... Richard Cole

Directed at BBC Manchester by: Tony Cliff.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990. Show less