Dead Letters

You can bank on Barnaby and Jones coming to a local festival where someone has been found murdered. I swear there have been at least fifteen of these festivals since I began watching this series. In this case a woman is found face down in a stream. She is mother of a girl of fifteen who supposedly died of food poisoning eight years previously. She had been named festival queen and her mother had been inconsolable. We find there are a whole slew of issues (as there always are), involving a nosy family, a pedophile, a doctor who seems to be too old and unattractive to be bringing on so much female attention. Anyway, we are led on a merry chase, trying to figure out a connection among several characters. Not the strongest effort for the series but it can stand on its own.