Barnaby attends the funeral of the owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel and hears that the hotel manager has gone missing. The will is read, and it seems the hotel has been divided between the missing manager and his beautiful wife, the hotel's chef and its accountant.A dog finds the hotel manager's severed hand, and the others named in the will receive threatening notes. Then accidents start to happen to them all, including mushroom-poisoning, an apparently accidental shooting, a falling drinks cabinet and a sabotaged vehicle. Barnaby next learns that the missing hotel manager had in his possession a more recent will, which is also now missing....
- Directed by
- David Tucker
- Written by
- David Hoskins
Guest stars
Barry Jackson
Dr. George Bullard
Samantha Bond
Suzanna Chambers
Tony Haygarth
Jack Tewson
Edward Jewesbury
Karl Wainwright
Robert Lang
Woody Pope
- C
Caroline Holdaway
Florence
- P
Philip Bowen
Gregory Chambers
Jonathan Coy
Kenneth Gooders
- N
Niamh Daly
Denise Daly
Roger Frost
Colin Salter
- G
Gordon Langford Rowe
Peter
Adie Allen
Annie
All episodes — Series 4
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S4 E1Garden of Death
Sep 10, 20006.8100 min
The Inkpen family has bought back its ancestral home, Inkpen Manor at Midsomer Deverell, and they plan to turn a village Memorial Garden on their land into a tea shop. This causes consternation in the village, and the Bennetts (who previous
S4 E3Electric Vendetta
Sep 2, 20016.390 min
A man's naked body is found in a crop circle, then another dead man electrocuted at the wheel of his vehicle, and then yet another dead man in another crop circle. Barnaby is not impressed by rumours of extra-terrestrial killings, and is su
S4 E4Who Killed Cock Robin?
Sep 9, 20017.290 min
Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes. Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a di
S4 E5Dark Autumn
Sep 16, 20016.790 min
A postman is brutally murdered on his morning round in the hamlet of Goodman's Land. Local WPC Jay Nash helps Barnaby and Troy to establish that Dave offered a very personal service to the female villagers, leaving a trail of jealous husban
S4 E6Tainted Fruit
Sep 23, 20016.590 min
A wealthy young landlady fears for her life after she callously ignores the plight of an elderly tenant.