The Doctor Blake Mysteries

When a wayward girl from the local reform school is found dead in Lake Wendouree, Dr Lucien Blake is immediately suspicious. He shocks the police with his unconventional investigative methods.

A body found in the lake turns out to be a girl from the local reform school.

On the eve of Anzac Day, Dr Lucien Blake is called to the morgue where the attendant has been murdered. With the autopsy tools and a body missing, Dr Blake smells a rat.

When a member of staff is found dead at the hospital, Lawson suspects Ron Jackson.

A driver involved in a fatal car crash is found to have been killed by a venomous snake.

When a travelling salesman dies in a car accident, police blame alcohol. Dr Blake concludes that the victim was not drunk and died before the crash of very unusual causes.

Blake is called to attend a delirious prisoner on death row.

A delirious prisoner on death row tells Dr Lucien Blake he is innocent of the police shooting for which he is soon to hang. Dr Blake pulls out all stops to uncover the truth.

Things get very ugly in Ballarat when the Begonia Festival�۪s head judge is found incinerated in his own glasshouse, all eyes turn to two feuding contestants.

Doctor Lucien Blake finds himself on the judging panel for the Begonia Festival.

The death of a migrant factory foreman initially looks like an industrial accident. Dr Blake digs deeper revealing a hideous string of crimes and the ugly side of post war Australia.

Doctor Blake is called to Patrick Tyneman's shoe factory where a migrant worker has died.

A psychiatric nurse is found murdered in a bathroom at the asylum.

A psychiatric inmate is found murder weapon in hand at the scene of a brutal murder. The inmate also confesses but Dr Blake doubts the case is quite as neat as it appears.

When a TV game show contestant is electrocuted, Blake suspects foul play.

Dr Lucien Blake is drawn into the new world of TV when contestants of a successful TV Quiz Show start dying.

A gold prospector is found dead down his mineshaft.

A prospector announces to a crowded pub that he has struck gold and later that night is found dead at the bottom of his mine shaft after showing off the nugget in the pub. The location of the murder triggers distressing war memories for Dr Blake.

Ballarat Hospital's only female doctor is found hanged at the hospital.

The suicide of Ballarat Hospital's first female doctor shocks the community. Dr Lucien Blake suspects foul play and sets out to find the murderer amongst the staff and board of the hospital.