In season six of this gritty british crime thriller, grumpy old-school copper Andy Dalziel and his well-mannered university educated partner Peter Pascoe, face more perplexing cases: The perplexing death of a schoolboy, the mysterious murder of a Sikh woman, the unexplained killing of a solicitor, and the perplexing appearance of a skeleton in a former mining town. On top of which, with Pascoe's wife and daughter now in America, the odd couple find...

Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...