A Question of Guilt

29 June 1860; Chief Inspector Jonathan Whicher is called to look into the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent, at a large countryhouse in Ro...

Three years before the murder, Constance returns from school and argues with her stepmother. She cuts her hair short before fleeing with her younger b...

Samuel Kent rides to Trowbridge to get the police when baby Francis is missing, believed carried off in a blanket. He offers £10 reward for anyone who...

Mr Kent believes the murderer is someone from the village and refuses to allow police to search his home. When a nightdress is found, the Superintenda...

Kent tries to deflect blame for the missing nightdress onto servant Mrs Dalimore. Nursemaid Elizabeth Gough is arrested but soon released on the word...

Constance is arrested for the murder of her brother after it is found that the missing bloodstained nightdress was hers. At Magistrate court, she is r...

Home Secretary brings in solicitor Mr Slack of Bath to make a private inquiry into the Kent murder. Elizabeth Gough is rearrested and released. Samuel...

Constance is packed off to France where she took holy orders. During holy week, she tells Miss Greame that she'd murdered baby Francis with a razorbla...

Summer 1776: Mary Blandy attends a summer ball in Henley, part of recruitment drive for a campaign in Flanders. It's here she meets Captain of Marines...

Mary is shocked to discover Cranstoun is married but he maintains it is not legal. When Cranstoun pays for her mother's illness, he wins favour but wh...

Cranstoun moves into Mary's home but her father once again refuses to allow them wed without Craunstoun's first 'marriage' annulled, which takes six m...

Cranstoun returns to Scotland following accounts of his mother's declining health. Mary's father insists that he not return without a letter saying hi...

As Blandy's health deteriorates, Dr Addington is called from Lincoln and convinced that he's been poisoned. Blandy points the finger at Mary who used...

Mary pleads not guilty when she's put on trial for the murder of her father Francis. She maintains that the powder she gave her father was a 'love' po...

New Year's Eve 1885: Thomas Edwin Bartlett is found dead. Ten years earlier, Frenchwoman Adelaide Comte de Thouars d'Escury meets Thomas while lodging...

In 1882, Adelaide is set to give birth to her first child. However, the labour doesn't go well and the baby dies. Adelaide and Edwin begin a friendshi...

In September 1885, Dyson joins the Bartletts on holiday in Dover. Thomas visits Dyson and asks him to continue visiting his wife. A romance becomes po...

Thomas has taken to his bed with an unknown illness. Adelaide refuses any help, or visitors, except for Dr Leach. His father demands a second opinion...

In late December 1885, Dyson admits he regularly bought chloroform for Adelaide. Thomas is released from hospital and Dr Leach recommends a holiday in...

Despite Thomas looking to the future, he is found dead. Adelaide is allowed to leave and Dyson wants to know what happened to the Chloroform he brough...

At the Coroner's Court, it is claimed chloroform was kept in the bedroom. The jury's verdict puts Adelaide and Dyson in the dock for murder. Prosecuti...

Adelaide is tried for Thomas' murder, using liquid chloroform. The jury finds her not guilty, feeling that the prosecution had not showed exactly how...