Master of the Moor
A three-part offering in British television’s Ruth Rendell Mysteries anthology, Master of the Moor was set in Dartmoor, the home of a brooding, solitary young man named Stephen Whalby (Colin Firth). Virtually alone since the death of his mother, Stephen wandered the moors day after day, writing dreamy, hallucinatory prose about the beauties of the countryside to the local newspaper. After the mysterious murders of several young, blonde women, Stephen’s writings became increasingly bizarre, thereby arousing the suspicions of Detective Inspector Manciple (George Costigan), who felt that the Heathcliffe-like hero knew more about the killings than he was willing to reveal. Master of the Moor was broadcast by Britain’s ITV service in 1994., A suburban British police inspector solves murders both common and bizarre., A man discovers the mutilated body of a young woman on the moors, and becomes obsessed with tracking down the beast that has defiled what he regards as his kingdom.
