Midsomer Murders

Undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead with his wrists slashed and suspicion turns towards a spiritualist church.

During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

JIMMY FONG and MADELINE VILLIERS battle through the jungle in Borneo, searching for a rare Orchid, the Yellow Roth, worth at least a hundred thousand pounds. They find it and MADELINE smuggles it back to Britain, relishing the excitement and adrenalin of the operation.

Bruce Hartley is the owner/trainer of Midsomer’s favourite racehorse, Bantling Boy, which is owned by a syndicate of Midsomer villagers. Bantling Boy was bequeathed to them by Bruce’s father, Colonel James Hartley of Bantling Hall, for their loyalty to him during his terminal illness - Joanna Craxton was his nurse; Dr. Osgood, his doctor; Trevor Machin, his gardener, and Dan, his son.

John Ransom is murdered with a blunt instrument, with suspicious burn marks to his head. On being thrown out the pub, ironically named ‘The Luck in the World”, following a drunken brawl John Ransom collapses to the floor. Big Ben Kirby has administered the final punch in the fight and flees in fear.

Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home. Is this suicide disguised as murder?

The day begins with the usual tours around the relish factory led by Sam Hardwick, a loyal employee of Plummer’s. It is also the day of the Plummer’s annual general meeting. At the meeting, the family argues over what to do with the failing family business.

Arthur Leggott sneaks out of the Cedar’s care home searching for the precious Joan Alder manuscript. Instead of finding the manuscript, he unearths a stranger in his house. Arthur is battered to death with a torch and his house is left in a state.