- When a famous 1860 bareknuckle boxing bout is restaged in Midsomer Morchard with great pomp, dead bodies begin to pile up for Barnaby.
- Kindly magistrate Gerald Farquharson throws a party in Midsomer Morchard to celebrate local boy John Kinsella winning the world middle-weight title. Guests include local solicitor Giles Braithwaite, his nosy secretary Iris and Grace, tarty wife of Kinsella's abrasive manager Frank Bishop. Gerald, the Bishops - separately - and Sebastian, who is not Gerald's son but the product of his late wife's affair, all want to see Giles urgently but he is murdered and his office ransacked. Sebastian's wife Camilla is pregnant but Sebastian is not the father. In fact he is gay and had had an affair with Giles, for which Iris is blackmailing him. At a reconstruction of a Victorian prize fight in Gerald's gardens, Bishop is also murdered, having sacked John's trainer and Grace's lover Teddy, who, with Grace, was planning to take over John's management behind Frank's back. Iris is the third and last victim of a killer who has gambled rather too much on the outcome of the noble art.—don @ minifie-1
- Everyone in Midsomer Morchard, including Tom and Joyce Barnaby, take great pride in local boy John Kinsella who has just become the light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The new champion is stuck in New York awaiting his flight home with his manager Frank Bishop but much is happening in his absence. Bishop calls solicitor Giles Braithwaite and insists that he meet him immediately on his return and several others - including Bishop's wife Grace, local Justice of the Peace Gerald Farquaharson and his daughter-in-law Camilla and, separately, Gerald's son Sebastian, all require urgent meeting with the solicitor as well. Everyone has a secret and when Braithwaite is found dead in his office, there is no shortage of suspects. Two others will be found dead however before DCI Barnaby and DS Jones crack the case.—garykmcd
- Fair justice of the peace and lord of the ancestral manor of Midsomer Morchard Gerald Farquaharson hosts a grad part there for the Madison Square Garden world title win of local boxer -and womanizer- John Kinsella, apologizing for his (bastard) son Sebastian, who wants gambler Gerald legally incapacitated to save their home and aristocratic heritage. Shortly after, local solicitor Giles Braithwaite's corpse is found in his office by his inseparable, devoted assistant Iris Holman and Kinsella's exploiting manager Frank Bishop, who rather then driving the exhausted champion and his disgruntled trainer home, dragged the latter there as his driver at night for a purpose which all claim unknown, while Frank found energy for a nearly-caught visit on foot to an adulteress lover. Next Gerald hosts an earlier-planned reenactment of the village's only earlier champion, played by Frank, bare knuckle-boxing an American whose performer is replaced last-minute by his lover's furious cuckolded fiancee, who just learned he was only needed for the perfect studio for her ambitious creation of a bronze statue for the Victorian champion, also commissioned by Gerald. Frank is found in the home gym, murdered rather like Giles, not mourned by a wife already plotting divorce. Later Iris calls Barnaby and Jones to disclose something after discovering her apartment ransacked, but is murdered herself. Barnaby finds the puzzle very hard, fearing his judgment clouded before trapping the unlikely killer.—KGF Vissers
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