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Pub. Date
c1995
Description
When a visiting author is suspected of murder, the case is hardly open and shut in this English village mystery novel by the author of Death in Disguise.
The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers. Consequently, there is much surprise when best-selling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. But the members are even more surprised by their secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, who furiously objects to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A quaint English village is home to a murderer in the Macavity Award-wining mystery series debut that launched the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.
Badger's Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up a fuss loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings, harbor macabre crimes, and eccentric characters that are no match for nice-guy detective Tom Barnaby and his assistants. Guest stars include Henry Ian Cusick, Jim Carter, Stella Gonet, Freddie Jones, Cherie Lunghi, and Henry Cavill. The mysteries: The Green Man; Bad Tidings; The Fisher King; and Sins of...
Pub. Date
©2013.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The killings at Badger's Drift: The death of an elderly woman and the persistence of her lifelong friend draw Barnaby into a case that reveals the sordid side of this quaint village. Written in blood: Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy writer, Barnaby discovers that the victim had been living a fictitious life....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth Chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.