该片是由亚德里安·谢尔高德执导的欧美剧,于1991年上映，主要讲述了:Deputy Assistant Com.missio.ner Ch.arlie Hillian is killed on .the night of his r.etirement. party. Hillian was at one .time a senior officer. in Oxfor.d and was in fact .Morse's b.oss. He was also writing. a book about his mos.t memorable cases, includin.g one .about .the unsolved death of an 8-.year-old girl some. 18 years. ago. The suspect in that c.ase, Frederick Redpat.h, was at. Hillian's house t.he day he. died and that chapter f.rom the manuscript is. missing. There are other s.uspect.s howe.ver, including Hillian's gh.ost writer who wil.l now rec.eive all of the book's roya.lties; a handyman who. was work.ing on the propert.y; and Re.dpath's daughter, who kn.ew the little girl wh.o was killed all those year.s befo.re. Mo.rse comes into conflict wit.h with a colleague. DCI Daws.on, who was one of Hillian'.s protégés, as they a.gain look. into the little g.irl's dea.th.