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1. April Fools' Shock

Peter Turnbull's Glaswegian cops investigate a corpse discovered on Maryhill Road. Stars Martin McCardie and Crawford Logan.

Discovering a corpse early one morning on Glasgow's Maryhill Road is not out of the ordinary.

But it's one that PC Hamilton finds very different...

Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth 'P' Division crime thriller set in Glasgow.

Dramatised in five parts by Stephen Mulrine.

Mrs MacIntyre …. Edith Ruddick
Mrs Douglas …. Joyce Falconer
PC Hamilton …. Martin McCardie
DS Ray Sussock …. Jake D'Arcy
DC Tony Abernathy …. Andrew Conlan
Dr David Reynolds …. Gerard Slevin
Jean Kaye …. Rebecca Hawking
WPC Elka Willems …. Eliza Langland
DI Donoghue …. Crawford Logan
DC Malcom Montgomery …. Frank Gallagher
Louise …. Anne Marie Timoney

Producer: Hamish Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993.

30 minutes

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