Minette Walters Collection

Vereinigte Königreich Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD: TON: Englisch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), BONUSMATERIAL: Kasten-Satz, Multi-DVD Satz, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü, SYNOPSIS: This boxset contains five dramatisations of Minette Walters stories, featuring: The Ice House; The Scolds Bridle; The Echo; The Dark Room and The Sculptress.

The Ice House (Dir. Tim Fywell, 1997): Since the disappearance of her husband, David, ten years earlier, Phoebe Maybury had been under suspicion and Inspector Jack Walsh had mounted an intensive investigation, but in the absence of a corpse the case had remained unsolved. The discovery of a body in the ice house, ten years on, is only the start of a dark, complex and chilling tale.

The Scold's Bridle (Dir. David Thacker, 1998): It was the scold's bridle, decorated with nettles and daisies and strapped to the old woman's face, that made Dr Sarah Blakeney shiver. In the Middle Ages it had been an instrument of torture for curbing the tongues of nagging women...

The Echo (Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence, 1998): Homeless Billy Blake - pavement artist, poet, drunk and occasional thief - is found starved to death in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell. How long had he been holed up there, just yards from food and shelter? What led him to Amanda's home? How did this seemingly well-educated man fall upon such hard times? Why are his hands and forearms scarred and misshapen by burns? And why did Amanda insist n paying for the funeral?
It emerges that Amanda's husband disappeared some years ago, along with £10m. from the merchant bank where he worked, while her sometime lover Nigel DeVriess made a killing by buying out the software company implicated in the fraud. Billy, meanwhile, bears a striking resemblance to miss...Minette Walters Collection - 5-DVD Boxset ( The Ice House / The Echo / The Dark Room / The Sculptress / The Scold's Bridle )