Episode Guide
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The Killings at Badger's Drift Gerald Hadleigh (Robert Swann), chairman of the Midsomer Worthy Writers Circle, is deeply troubled when the group decides to invite writer Max Jennings (John Shrapnel) to their next meeting. The morning after Jennings's visit, Hadleigh's housekeeper finds him bludgeoned to death in his home. Barnaby and Troy discover Hadleigh was somewhat of an enigma since a witness observed an unknown woman enter his house the night before his murder. The police detectives now find themselves scrutinising all
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Written in Blood The peace of Ferne Basset is shattered when the body of quiet animal lover Agnes Gray (Denyse Alexander) is found floating in the nearby river. Soon afterwards her cousin, Esslyn Carmichael (Nicholas Le Prevost), inadvertently cuts his own throat on stage during the final act of an amateur production of Amadeus. It turns out that the safety tape on the prop razor used by Esslyn on stage had been removed, making it lethal. As most of the other cast members of the Causton Amateur Dramatics Society
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Death of a Hollow Man The villagers of Morton Fendle are up in arms when they find out that the local craft centre (a mill conversion), in which they had invested, is facing financial uncertainty. Barnaby learns that Simone (Lesley Vickerage), wife of the centre's owner Alan Hollingsworth (Roger Allam), is missing, and suspects that she has been kidnapped. Brenda Buckley (Sophie Stanton), Alan's admirer, follows Alan to Finchmere Market and sees him depositing a suitcase containing what appears to be a ransom payment
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Faithful Unto Death Bill Carter, a founder of a New Age commune called the 'Lodge of the Golden Windhorse', dies of a broken neck after falling down stairs of the group's country manor house. Barnaby and Troy investigate and meet the commune's quirky residents. They need to establish whether Bill's death was an accident or a premeditated murder. The investigation becomes more complex when Ian Craigie (Michael Feast), the co-founder leader of the commune, is stabbed to death with a carving knife during the spiritual
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Death in Disguise At a local New Age commune (fancifully called the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse) William Carter is found dead with a broken neck, lying at the bottom of a staircase. Barnaby and Troy have to decide whether the death was an accident or murder.