该电视剧由查尔斯·比森执导，约翰·肖、凯文·沃特利、克莱尔·霍尔曼、理查德·布赖尔斯、朱蒂·罗、罗杰·阿拉姆等主演，于1997年上映。在102分钟的叙事中，《摩斯探长第十季》（又名：摩斯探长：死亡降临邻居家、摩斯探长：与死神为邻）Rachel James is shot through her kitchen window while having breakfast early one morning. She was having an affair with Dr. Julian Storrs, an Oxford professor who is a candidate for Master of Lonsdale College. When her next door neighbor is also killed however, Morse determines that the shooting of James may have been in error. Morse also suspects that he may have been a blackmailer. Both Storrs an his rival for the Masters position, Denis Cornford had secrets that would make them suspects. Morse determines that several others also had things to hide and any one of them could have committed the murders.