Fact and Fiction

Fact and Fiction is the 100th episode of Taggart.

It was originally broadcast on the ITV network on Christmas Eve 2009.

SYNOPSIS
Three years earlier Jimmy Melville's corpse is found floating in a river. His mobile phone was sold on eBay and at one time had been in the possession of Mark Joffe, a part-time English lecturer and crime writer, whose new novel 'Chaos' describes a murder identical to Melville's. He is an arrogant, evasive interviewee but he had once had an affair with an Anne Scoular, to whom he was violent and threatening after she left him for Jimmy Melville. This give Burke's team an opening, as does the cooperation of an older female colleague.

CAST

 * DS Jackie Reid - Blythe Duff
 * DI Robbie Ross - John Michie
 * DCI Matt Burke - Alex Norton
 * DC Stuart Fraser - Colin McCredie
 * Mark Joffe - Finlay Robertson
 * Phyllis Wade - Kim Thomson
 * DCI Wilson - Jimmy Yuill
 * Shop Owner - Rob Drummond
 * Jane Melville - Mairi Morrison
 * Anne Scoular - Susan Coyle
 * ACC Strathairn - Alan McHugh
 * Desk Sergeant - Charlene Boyd
 * Female Student - Puja Panchkoty
 * McFarlene - Scott Hoatson
 * Shop Assistant - Inga Stewart
 * TV Journalist - Mike Edwards