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Crooked House
Air Date: 8th to 29th Febuary 2008

Anna plays the role of Sophia Leonides.

About
Three generations of the Anglo-Greek Leonides family live together in a large, seemingly crooked house, under the patriarchy of Aristide. He is an ageing millionaire who originally moved to England from Smyrnahis granddaughter Sophia tells her fiancé Charles Hayward, the story's first person narrator, that she can't marry him until the killer is apprehended; so, desperate for her hand in marriage, he begins his own investigation.



Adapted by Joy Wilkinson
Directed by Sam Hoyle 
 
Cast
Anna Maxwell Martin (Sophia Leonides)

 Rory Kinnear (Charles Hayward)
Phil Davis (Chief Insp. Taverner



Episode 1
  Returning home from WWII, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry Sophia Leonides.


Episode 2
 Aristides Leonides has been murdered. Until the killer is caught, others are in danger, particularly young Josephine.


Episode 3
 After Josephine's attempted murder, Three Gables is still in a state of confusion. However, fresh evidence is unearthed.



Episode 4
Another murder has struck Three Gables, which means the case against Brenda and Laurence falls apart.



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