SINS OF COMMISSION
First Broadcast: January 18, 2004
| The
villagers in Midsomer St. Michael are celebrating the 12th Year Midsomer
Literary Festival at Maplin Hall. The festival started ever since Conor
Maplin, husband of Grace Maplin, who owns the all, died. But on the eve
of the festival, local woman Kay Settingfield finds a prize-winning
author dead at the bottom of the stairs, the name of Richard Rackham.
Apparently his neck has been broken. Barnaby and Scott meet down at the
cottage with Bullard. They chat briefly with Kay, who tells them Richard once won the Maplin Prize. Apparently his publisher was Sam Callaghan. Bullard then gives his verdict - apparently it is definitely murder, and not just a straightforward fall down the stairs. They find some magazines in the house which doesn't suggest he is a ladies man - and then Barnaby witnesses Kay stealing a postcard from the mantelpiece. |
| The news spreads around the village quickly. At the pub, one of the judges - 'Jezebel Tripp' - has arrived to sign some autographs. She writes historical novels which are rather popular. Though she is not grateful with friend Neville Williams organising a pathetic audience. Jezebel was hoping for more than a few villagers. |
| Barnaby
and Scott visit Maplin Hall where Cully is helping with the
preparations. Also there is John Denton - Barnaby knows him, he used to
be a troublemaker but apparently he's reformed, even being short-listed
for the Maplin Prize. Barnaby has earlier discovered how John Denton had
a row with Richard the night he died at The Quill Inn. John denies
having anything to do with the murder. When the evening of the festival arrives, a power cut which gives opportunity to commit a second murder crops up. It is the publisher's wife, Helen Callaghan, who finds Neville Williams dead on the terrace.
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DCI
Tom Barnaby |
John
Nettles |
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DS
Daniel Scott |
John
Hopkins |
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Joyce
Barnaby |
Jane
Wymark |
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Cully
Barnaby |
Laura
Howard |
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Dr.
George Bullard |
Barry
Jackson |
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Grace
Maplin |
Stella
Gonet |
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Tim
Settingfield |
Donald
Sumpter |
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Kay
Settingfield |
Margot
Leicester |
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Neville
Williams |
Mark
Umbers |
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Jezebel
Tripp |
Emma
Buckley |
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Sam
Callaghan |
Tom
Mannion |
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Helen
Callaghan |
Victoria
Wicks |
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Camilla
Crofton |
Susan
Engel |
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John
Denton |
Robert
Whitelock |
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WPC
Julie |
Alex
Belcourt |
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Brenda
Hunnicut |
Rachel
Bell |
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David
Lowry |
Damien
Lyne |
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Travel
Agent |
Caroline
Lintott |
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Screenplay |
Elizabeth
Anne-Wheal |
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Director |
Peter
Smith |
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Producer |
Brian
True-May |