Caroline Graham
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Simon Hannaford is in need of some fast money, and murder seems the obvious solution. Specifically, a 1930s Murder Mystery Weekend, to be held at Madingley Grange, his aunt's superbly hideous gothic mansion. Simon and his sister are meant to be housesitting, but surely Aunt Maude would not begrudge them the chance to earn a few nearly honest shekels.
As the guests arrive-each one dottier than the last-Simon's grand plans quickly go awry. Meanwhile,...
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The English inspector confronts a cultist enclave where mysticism meets murder in the series that inspired the ITV crime drama Midsummer Murders.
The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. Now Chief Inspector Barnaby must separate...
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When a visiting author is suspected of murder, the case is hardly open and shut in this English village mystery novel by the author of Death in Disguise.
The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers. Consequently, there is much surprise when best-selling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. But the members are even more surprised by their secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, who furiously objects to...
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A quaint English village is home to a murderer in the Macavity Award-wining mystery series debut that launched the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.
Badger's Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up a fuss loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy...
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The first three Chief Inspector Barnaby mysteries, the basis for the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The Killing at Badger's Drift: After a spinster is murdered in the seemingly quaint village of Badger's Drift, her best friend kicks up a fuss, attracting attention from Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. When Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy begin poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething...
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An onstage murder in a small English village draws the beloved detective into "a theatrical whodunit worthy of a deep bow" (The New York Times).
Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no exception. However, even the most theatrically minded have to admit that murdering the leading man in full view of the audience is a bit over the top. Luckily, Inspector Barnaby is in that audience, and while he...
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Midsomer Murders volume 3
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The peace of Ferne Basset is shattered, when the body of quiet animal lover Agnes Gray is bludgeoned to death and found floating in the nearby river. The case is far from easy, when her cousin, Esslyn Carmichael, inadvertently cuts his own throat on stage during the final act of a production of Amadeus. Many of the village and of the Causton Amateur Dramatics' Society loathed him. Barnaby is puzzled how someone could have tampered with the prop knife...