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Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Neil Dudgeon | ... | DCI John Barnaby | |
Gwilym Lee | ... | DS Charlie Nelson | |
Fiona Dolman | ... | Sarah Barnaby | |
Tamzin Malleson | ... | Kate Wilding | |
Una Stubbs | ... | Audrey Braylesford | |
Georgia Taylor | ... | Bella Summersbee | |
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Charlotte Cornwell | ... | Jeannie Summersbee |
Lia Williams | ... | Maggie Markham | |
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Adam Kotz | ... | Nick Summersbee |
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Howard Ward | ... | Niall Colebrooke |
Simon Kunz | ... | Miles Rattigan | |
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | ... | Rob Mead | |
Ed Birch | ... | Curtis Braylesford | |
Grant Russell | ... | George Summersbee | |
Timothy Watson | ... | Vincent Treaborne |
Suzie Colebrook is electrocuted by a roulette wheel sent to her house. She was the legal executor and supposed lover of thriller writer George Summersbee whose Jed Dagger novels she also illustrated. At the same time a newly discovered manuscript by George of an unpublished Dagger story is stolen from Suzie's home. A local crime fiction festival is going on, run by Maggie Markham, whose doctor husband Nick Summersbee has written his brother George's biography whilst George's daughter Bella, rather than estranged wife Jeanie, is his sole heir. Following a second murder Barnaby finds out that both were copied from killings in a Dagger novel though the victim was a stranger to Suzie. There are a number of people anxious for different reasons to locate the missing manuscript but there are also suggestions that it is a fake. Furthermore there are differing accounts of George's death. Barnaby has to resort to the printed page to solve the mystery of the Dagger club. Written by don @ minifie-1
A modern classic, one of the best stories from Midsomer for a little while, a complex story with a fair amount of intrigue, told and concluded in Agatha Christie-esque style.
The opening is a particularly good one, I don't think you'll find a more unique murder method in the show's history, it didn't remind me of a technique used in The Big Four (Agatha Christie fans will know what I mean.)
I thought the filming and camera work was particularly good in this one, very slick, almost film like. Great set of realistic characters, and some fine performances, notably from Lia Williams and Una Stubbs, the latter so often sweet and ditsy, it's great to see her move into different territory.
I love the conclusion, it felt as I mentioned earlier somewhat Agatha Christie, with all the suspects gathered together.
All in all this was an impressive start to Series Seventeen.