When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.
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- TriviaThe author of the book that is the root of the strife between the two villages is Ellis Bell. Ellis Bell was the pseudonym of Emily Brontë.
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DCI Tom Barnaby: [they have just turned uphill at a T-junction] Stop, Troy, stop. We go down the hill, Troy.
Sergeant Gavin Troy: I thought we were going to Upper Warden.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Yeah, we are.
[points to signpost]
DCI Tom Barnaby: Upper Warden is down the hill; Lower Warden is up the hill
Sergeant Gavin Troy: That doesn't make any sense.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Troy, this is Midsomer.
Sergeant Gavin Troy: Sorry. I forgot.
- ConnectionsReferences The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Fighting between two villages, the Upper and Lower Warden, is nothing new, going back to Cromwell.
Now it's getting serious. When the star of the horror film The House of Satan, the bewigged Larry Smith, enters a pavilion with much aplomb only to blown up, Barnaby and Troy are called in. Smith was a member of the Smythe-Webster family, the major upper class family in the area. His father is the local vicar, his uncle is lord of the manor, and another uncle is producing The House of Satan, a story based on happenings centuries earlier.
The citizens of Lower Warden resent that the book, a local history, has been turned into a low-budget horror movie. Barnaby isn't sure that's enough reason to kill the star. Then someone else in the family is murdered. As is usually the case with Midsomer Murders, the motive lies in the past -- and perhaps in The House of Satan.
Neat mystery with interesting characters and old secrets that bubble to the surface. It will take B&T a while to sort through this one. I loved it.
- blanche-2
- Aug 3, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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