Fractions of Zero (2002)
DS Sue Manson is transferred to the Missing Persons Bureau and gets involved with the investigation into the disappearance of a young woman, but the only clue is a series of jumbled letters.
First Broadcast: Monday 5th August 2002 (BBC Radio 4)
First Broadcast: Monday 5th August 2002 (BBC Radio 4)
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James Ellstrom
A mathematician who helps DS Manson determine how the killer is selecting their victims.
James Ellstrom
A mathematician who helps DS Manson determine how the killer is selecting their victims.
Episode Guide
Fractions of Zero comprised five episodes, each lasting 15 minutes.
Episode 1: A woman is missing, but the detective's only clue is a series of jumbled letters.
Fractions of Zero comprised five episodes, each lasting 15 minutes.
Episode 1: A woman is missing, but the detective's only clue is a series of jumbled letters.
Episode 2: The cryptogram clues leave the detective baffled over the serial killer's motives.
Episode 3: Mathematician James Ellstrom helps DS Sue Manson to discover the murderer's system of selecting victims.
Episode 4: Sue and Ellstrom are alarmed when a fifth cryptogram arrives at the police station. Has the killer changed his system?
Episode 5: The police are convinced that they have caught the killer, but Sue is not so sure and she puts herself in personal jeopardy to catch the murderer.
