Hugh and Cecily Branksome retire to the seaside town where they grew up. There they meet again Arnold Cottle, an old boyfriend of Cecily's. She goes to look for a public seat given to the town by her late father, who was a local alderman, and finds it was destroyed and later replaced by another seat given by a suspected murderer. With Arnold's help, she sets out to investigate the unsolved murder.
| Name | Type | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Rendell | Writer | ||
| Alex Ferguson | Writer | ||
| Sandy Johnson | Director |