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Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing persons case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications.

Dramatised by: Guy Meredith

Inspector Morse: John Shrapnel

Sergeant Lewis: Robert Glenister

Chief Supt Strange: John Hartley

Mrs Ainley: Auriol Smith

Donald Phillipson: Miles Anderson

Sheila Phillipson: Melinda Walker

Gwen Taylor: Frances Jeater

George Taylor: Donald Sumpter

Reginald Baines: Terence Edmond

Johnny Maguire: Paul Panting

Mrs Acum: Tamsin Greig

Sgt Dickon: Lyndam Gregory

David Acum: David Jarvis

Joe: James Taylor

Versatile Vera: Emily Woof

Supervisor: Vivienne Rochester

Surgeon: Don McCorkindale

Sergeant Rogers: Michael Onslow

Radio 3 announcer: Catriona Young

Music: Wilfredo Acosta

Director: Ned Chaillet

Saturday Night Theatre:

Sat 28th May 1994

19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. 

Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body—a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets one…

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