Who wrote novels featuring Inspector Lynley?
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries working-class background. In August 2007, the BBC announced its intention to stop production of "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries". Fans of the series mounted a campaign to save it, with a petition and by contacting with the BBC, but to no avail. All six series have since been released on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK. All episodes from the first two series and two from the third are based on novels by the American writer Elizabeth George, though the plots and characters are often significantly altered. Later episodes are original stories for television based on her characters. The theme music
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries for the series was composed by Debbie Wiseman. The first episode, "A Great Deliverance", was broadcast on 12 and 13 March 2001, becoming the only two-part episode throughout the series run. It was also based on the inaugural Inspector Lynley novel. The first full series began broadcasting on 8 April 2002, with the first episode based on and named after the third novel, "Well-Schooled in Murder". The first eleven episodes were based on, and named after, the eleven Inspector Lynley novels published from 1988 to 2001, beginning with the inaugural novel "A Great Deliverance", but subsequently departing from the print