Series: Lowe and Le Breton mysteries

In 1970, while on a location shoot in Shropshire for the downmarket BBC sitcom Floggit and Leggit, ageing actor Edward Lowe—a ‘short, stocky northerner with a receding hairline and bad eyesight’, who plays the pompous and officious lead, a role based on himself—stumbles across the body of a young woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident. But there's...