- Jeff Bowmaker runs a profitable business in Midsomer Magna conducting spooky "ghost tours" at night when the unpopular village librarian turns up dead.
- Driving down a country lane at night, Joyce believes she has hit somebody but there is no evidence to support this. However, unpopular village librarian Gerald Ebbs is found murdered in a nearby graveyard, of which he was voluntary caretaker. Most of the graves are for T.B. patients from an adjacent but long disused sanatorium. Assistant librarian Sarah Sharp benefits from the death of Gerald, who was frequently at odds with ghost walks organizer Jeff Bowmaker. Bowmaker runs tours through the graveyard and is having affairs with two married women, landlady Alice Carver and historian Faith Kent. When Joyce joins a ghost walk which explores the sanatorium a second victim is claimed, enabling Barnaby to discover how his wife believed she had disturbed the silent land.—don @ minifie-1
- DCI Tom Barnaby, DS Ben Jones and DC Gail Stephens investigate the murder of Gerald Ebbs who is found sprawled across a grave in the cemetery of the church in March Magna. The investigation is initially quite stressful for Barnaby as his wife Joyce had an accident the previous evening while on her way home from a concert with their daughter Cully. She saw a figure on the road and swerved but is afraid she may have struck someone. Fortunately Dr. Bullard confirms that Ebbs was struck on the head and has even identified the murder weapon. There is little doubt that Ebbs was disliked by everyone in the village so there are any number of suspects. Ebbs seemed to have a peculiar interest in that graveyard which was used mainly for patients from a nearby and long closed sanatorium. A second murder points Barnaby in the direction of the killer.—garykmcd
- Tom Barnaby investigates informally if his wife actually hit at night a passerby in sleepy March Magna village, only to find it can't be the only corpse, recluse librarian and local historian Gerald Ebbs, who was skull-smashed with a tomb fragment and left on the grave of Caroline Roberts. She died from a stairs fall in the long-closed Victorian hospital's taboo tuberculosis ward when it was still incurable. Gerald was obsessed with it. The only colorful local figure is Jeff Bowmaker, who lures tourists to his ghost - and other superstitious guided visits, also to the 'gaunted pub' where an innkeeper once hung himself. Jeff has adulterous affairs with his landlady Alice Carver and 'ghost' accomplice historian Faith Kent. While Barnaby works out who's who and does who and what's peculiar about the premises, a second murder is carried out.—KGF Vissers
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