Midsomer Murders - Dead Letters [DVD]

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Barnaby hooks up with Bella's pregnancy only when he finds letters written to her by an anonymous person, quite obviously baby's father and gets the ultimate stranglehold on the case when Dr. Wellow's secret admirer April Gooding turns up as a witness of Pride's late night visit. The 'Creeper' is a daring cat burglar responsible for a series of daring thefts across Midsomer. After the Creeper strikes twice in one night, a writer, David Roper, is found smothered to death in his bed on the Chettham family estate. The police soon learn that Mr. Roper had been planning to write a book that could have exposed many Chettham family secrets of years past. The mystery deepens when a second victim who knew the family is shot in woodland. The detectives have to search the family's history to solve the crimes and finally uncover the Creeper's identity. Debbie Shortlands – She was fired and as she dropped her papers and bent down to get them, her throat was slashed with a large knife. On a business trip to China, Alan King suddenly dies. The family firm, King's Crystal, is in financial uncertainty, with plans to close its factory in Midsomer Magna. Six months later Alan's widow Hilary and his brother Charles are married, much to the chagrin of Alan's son Ian. With family feuds and factory workers angered by the loss of their jobs, motives abound when Peter Baxter, the firm's accountant, is found dead, stabbed with a Masonic poniard, and Ian is fatally poisoned. Barnaby and Jones suspect a disgruntled employee is guilty. With so many things to investigate, they will need to explore both the Freemasons and the family, and find that the play of Hamlet may hold the key to the case.

Barnaby and Winter are stranded on a remote island manor due to a storm after Victor Karras, owner of Karras Games, dies falling down the stairs and hit with a falling statue. Victor’s wife, Eleanor, is pregnant and plans to give the child to her sister Alicia. Later, Hugo Welles is also murdered and Barnaby and Winter discover the key to the case. Detective Constable Gail Stephens ( Kirsty Dillon) (series 10–13)—a colleague of Tom Barnaby and DS Jones, who often helps them in their cases, sometimes providing valuable insight. Gail was transferred to Midsomer from Binwell. Gail is cheery but emotional, breaking down in tears when, after initially serving as a uniformed woman police constable, she was appointed as a plain-clothed CID detective. Throughout Gail's appearances, it is implied that she is on the point of having an affair with Sgt Jones, but when it came to the crunch he decided that he did not want to get too heavily involved with a colleague, after which Gail effectively snubbed him. Strangely, Gail has not been seen since "Fit For Murder". We couldn’t afford to close the pub at the Queen’s funeral’: the struggle to survive on a main street in Greater Manchester Gregory Chambers – Shot with an arrow in the chest. He was later cut off with a chainsaw and submerged in a lake.

Raif Canning – He was injected with a fatal dose of Pentobarbitone while collecting his tennis balls from the ground. Joyce joins the local watercolour society for an open-air art class on the village green in Midsomer Florey. Shortly before taking a break, she stumbles across the body of elderly Ruth Fairfax, a fellow artist. It turns out there was more to Ruth than met the eye. Barnaby is taken off the case by the National Intelligence Squad and it is left to Troy to 'apprehensively' keep Barnaby informed on the investigation. Barnaby and Troy soon uncover that the proceeds from an armed robbery are missing. They find out all information about former criminals alongside all the secret liaisons, before they bring all the culprits to justice. Connie Bishop, a school teacher who is known to sleepwalk, begins to experience disturbing dreams and is convinced of an intruder in her home. She becomes a murder suspect when a local councillor and, soon after, a local handyman are found with their throats cut near to her house. Her friends are not convinced of her guilt and nor is Barnaby. As the investigation continues, local philanthropist Howard Richardson and his social-climbing wife Zukie irritate the community when they introduce their own plans for the annual village charity occasion. Events come to a dramatic conclusion when Barnaby and Jones unexpectedly interrupt the charity evening to arrest the killer. Farmer Alex Preston's dead body is found in the centre of the ancient Crowcall stone circle days before the spring equinox. Early evidence points to a community of New Dawn Druids, who had been angered over Preston's plans to plough the meadow and make the sacred place inaccessible. But when one of the druids is also murdered, Barnaby realises that more complex motives are involved, and his suspicions turn in a direction that threatens to create a serious rift between him and Jones. Maps that reveal the location of a hidden Anglo Saxon treasure, along with a more modern valuable painting, provide the clues that lead to a very manipulative killer.

One of the most unusual Midsomer episodes given the fact that although the main plot has quite often something to do with a certain event in the past, this time it effectively triggers all the murders after some eight years without much warning. What ignites all the drama is the return of the annual Festival Queen award which was originally abandoned after the death of Bella Slade, the incumbent holder at the time. When Susan Bartlett is found murdered in Setwale Wood in Midsomer Worthy, DCI Barnaby and DS Troy discover the wood is the centre of a court case over a proposed redevelopment involving neighbouring farmers Simon Bartlett and James Harrington. Barnaby and Troy now suspect murder when two children tell them they found the body the previous afternoon. But as they investigate this case, they soon uncover a web full of witchcraft, potions, and hidden secrets. When James Harrington is also found murdered, Barnaby and Troy realise, that they need to work fast to avoid further deaths. The crime festival and book fair open in the village of Luxton Deeping. Shortly after, an announcement is made, during a meeting of a newly discovered manuscript by the late crime writer George Summersbee. When the manuscript is stolen and a woman is found dead after spinning a roulette wheel trap, Barnaby and Nelson know they are set to work to uncover many secrets and obsessions within the village.

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Tracy’s character runs the Heart of Oak. “She’s a fantastic pub landlady – really flirty, warm, deceitful, and she has a ding dong with the local doctor played by Simon Callow. She’s also had another affair with a character played by David Bamber. Her husband Ron, played by Tom Georgeson is a bit older and he is very protective and jealous of her.” Midsomer Worthy is preparing for the Four Choirs Competition when one of their members, Connor Simpson, is found dead at his home. Barnaby and Jones begin to look into the events leading to his death. The case is further complicated when a birdwatcher and estate keeper are also killed. With a mysterious figure seen lurking around the churchyard, conductor rivalry, and a possible art scam, there are many things to be investigated.

In February 2009 it was announced that Nettles had decided to leave Midsomer Murders after the conclusion of series 13 in July 2010. When his last episode "Fit for Murder" aired on 2 February 2011, Nettles had appeared in 81 episodes. [2] [3] The death of Mark Castle is somewhat a forced issue in the plot and could have really been omitted.One mention goes to the characters of Ursula & Alistair Gooding which are family relatives to a similar mother-son duo from the very first Midsomer episode "The Killing's At Badger's Drift". Elizabeth Spriggs and Richard Cant play the characters in both episodes. The subplots in this story are not as near as good as the mainplot. The child entertainer and the barmaid subplots did not build into anything of merrit, which was very disappointing.