Devices and Desires (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1991-01-04
Ended: 1991-02-08
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Friday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders. His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession...