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Unmarried women are disappearing in the sleepy East Anglian town of Flaxborough.

4 Extra Debut. Something’s simmering beneath the surface in the sleepy town of Flaxborough. Unmarried women are disappearing. Stars John Rowe.

Flaxborough is a sleepy, small market town, slumbering through a 1950s summer, but beneath the calm surface something's happening. 

Lonely, well-off middle-aged women are disappearing. 

Is someone preying on them?

One of Colin Watson's earliest of the Flaxborough novels, first published in 1967. 

John Rowe stars as Inspector Walter Purbright.

Dramatised in six parts by Christopher Denys.

Inspector Purbright .... John Rowe
Detective Sergeant Love .... Paul Downing
Lucy Teatime .... Linda Gardner
Mortimer Hive .... Simon Carter
Chief Constable .... Geoffrey Banks
Mr Spain .... Peter Wheeler
Receptionist .... Victoria Finney

Directed at BBC Manchester by Tony Cliff.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.

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The inspector probes the mystery of missing lonely women from the town of Flaxborough.

Inspector Purbright investigates the disappearance of lonely women from the town of Flaxborough.

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