- Undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead with his wrists slashed and suspicion turns towards a spiritualist church.
- Det. Supt. Barnaby and DS Scott investigate the murder of Patrick Pennyman, an undertaker in the village of Fletcher's Cross. The man's wife thinks he committed suicide but the pathologist determines he was killed. The man died soon after his return home after attending a service at the local spiritualist church, itself the source of some controversy in the village. As the investigation progresses, the police learn that Pennyman was generally disliked. Former employees, business partners and others all had a grudge against him of one sort or another. Barnaby believes the head of the Spiritualist church to be a charlatan and while there is a link to the ever increasing number of murder victims, the solution to the crimes is to be found in an illicit love affair.—garykmcd
- Workaholic undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found by his romantically neglected wife, skull-smashed and wrists-slit, in his own chapel of rest in the village of Fletcher's Cross. Barnaby and Scott start looking into 'medium' Rosetta Price's popular but heavily controversial 'spiritualist church' in the village starring ghost Charlotte. Joyce's dinner friend Elizabeth Key, who took her to attend one of attended their meetings, most suspicious of both the spiritualist church and the undertaker, believing they were acquiring information and stealing from the dead, and is later murdered herself. Scrooge Patrick parted bitterly with his former partner, paid badly handyman who has a crush on Janet, whom he eagerly helps, but isn't alone, even the parish without priest's unhappily married sexton Ronald Burgess has a discrete affair. While the detectives uncover the secrets in Fletcher's Cross another murder occurs.—KGF Vissers
- The murder of undertaker Patrick Pennyman takes Barnaby and Scott to the pretty village of Fletcher's Cross, where residents are divided about the rights and wrongs of a spiritualist church run by medium Rosetta Price. When Joyce Barnaby's friend Elizabeth is also killed, the detectives must find if there's a link between the funeral parlor and revelations from the spirit world.—Anonymous
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