Once again, we're faced with a hilarious murder--this is a TV show, after all--that defies all logic and reason. A demented recluse murders his wife by tipping over a tower of newspapers onto the woman. Don't ask about the tower; just assume it's possible that the couple could save, apparently, thousands of papers and construct towers of them all over their mansion.
The rest of show is relatively straightforward by comparison. The son of two siblings (yes) turns out to be entirely normal, even handsome and intelligent. A crackpot artist divines diseases in horses. And the new Barnaby stitches everything together by getting Jones to examine the names of craters on the moon.
I have stopped asking for verisimilitude in this series. It's best to sit back, watch the carnival, and ask how scriptwriters come up with entertainment like this.
If my irony is too heavy-handed, I'm saying that I enjoyed this episode. It's light-hearted murder at its best.
Review of Dark Secrets
