DEAD MAN'S ELEVEN

First Broadcast: September 12, 1999

Tom and Joyce are looking for a new home. To Barnaby's displeasure, Joyce has found a house in the Midsomer village of Fletcher's Cross. On their way to meeting the Coopers, who are in need of selling their home and moving away, they pass the cricket green where the match and players are all heated up.
Unpopular landowner, Robert Cavendish, owns the manor house in the village and has a young wife. His son, Stephen, owns a business but often relies on his father to make sure his work keeps going on well. Although he is married to cake-eating Jane, he is having an affair with a barmaid from The Queen's Arms Pub.

That evening, during Robert's birthday, he and wife Tara announce that they are interested in moving away to Orlando. Unfortunately for Jane and Stephen, their house is part of the manor and Robert moving away could mean that they must find a new home.
The following day, Tara disappears after taking the dog for a walk. After being reported missing, her body is found at the old quarry on the edge of the village. It seems she was battered to death with a cricket bat.

Barnaby and Troy have a tough time finding enemies for the woman, but instead learn old stories about the possibility of the quarry being cursed. A young husband/father who was caught in an explosion there and the Cavendish's previous housekeeper who may have been pushed into the quarry might be connected to the latest death!

 

DCI Tom Barnaby

John Nettles

DS Gavin Troy

Daniel Casey

Joyce Barnaby

Jane Wymark

Cully Barnaby

Laura Howard

Robert Cavendish

Robert Hardy

Tara Cavendish

Felicity Dean

Stephen Cavendish

Anthony Calf

Jane Cavendish

Annabelle Apsion

Mrs. Wilson

Penelope Beaumont

Zelda Frasier

Delia Lindsay

Ian Frasier

Terence Rigby

Christine Cooper

Imelda Staunton

Colin Cooper

Duncan Preston

Charles Jennings

Terence Corrigan

Olive Beauvoisin

Eileen Davies

Dan Peterson

Toby Jones

Patricia Smith

Zoe Hart

Young Trish

Ella Jones

Emily Beavis

Susan Field

Doreen Beavis

Hilda Braid

Edwina the Rambler

Amanda Walker

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Screenplay by

Anthony Horowitz

Directed by

Jeremy Silberston

Produced by

Brian True-May and Betty Willingale

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