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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Amid the excitement of preparations for the Perfect Village Competition in Midsomer Mallow, a local rogue is found brutally murdered. Barnaby discovers a wealth of suspects-- all of whom appear to be lying and a determination by the villagers to keep his investigation quiet so as not to jeopardize their chances in the competition.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A writers circle in Midsomer. Worthy invites bestselling novelist Max Jennings to attend a meeting despite the curious opposition of the group's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh. The morning after the meeting, Hadleigh is found dead, the victim of a brutal beating.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Dan Scott arrives from London to work with Barnaby, expecting to have an easy life on the rural beat. Then the murders begin. The death of an unlikable Midsomer Mallow woman embroils Cully and her old schoolmates in a case of murder and deceit.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Troy wins a promotion to inspector, but before he can decide on his future, a construction mishap unearths a recent skeleton hidden among ancient bones. While Barnaby investigates, he sends Troy to the woods near Midsomer Worthy where teenagers have tangled with an old man who lives in the wild.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Something wicked this way comes to the Sunny Ridge Retirement Home for Ladies. Miss Marple teams up with detective duo Tommy and Tuppence to investigate the suspicious death of Tommy's Aunt Ada and sudden disappearance of Ada's friend, Mrs. Lancaster, both residents of Sunny Ridge. An oddly doctored painting and tantalizing crossword clues lead Tuppence and and Miss Marple to Farrell St. Edmund, a village that seems straight out of a fairy tale complete...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Among the guests at a Dartmoor Hotel, a séance starts out as an amusing diversion to pass the time on a snowy evening but then takes a sinister turn. Supernatural events point to danger to Trevelyan, an infamous local staying at the hotel. Meanwhile, six miles away at Sittaford House, Miss Marple finds a not-so-supernatural death threat naming the same man. With snow piling up and blocking the roads, can anyone reach him in time?
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
First the portrait of a wealthy village forefather is found slashed to shreds in the local museum. Then a string of unearthly happenings in the museum and its graveyard terrify the community. Barnaby and Troy are called upon to separate fact from fiction.
13) Sleeping murder
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Gwenda arrives in England, looking forward to her impending marriage and new life in a lovely old coastal estate. But almost immediately, she begins to experience sinister visions. Enter Miss Marple, who concludes that the bride-to-be witnessed a murder in that very house as a child. But how could she, since Gwenda had spent her entire life in India?
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Celtic rites, ancient artifacts, and a maze of twisted personal and professional relationships figure in the murder of a Midsomer Barrow landowner. The secrets uncovered by Barnaby and Scott's investigation threaten to shake up both Midsomer and the academic world.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
In the tiny, gossipy village of Fawcett Green, the beautiful wife of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in what appears to be a kidnapping for ransom. Barnaby finds the village awash in suspects who hold the businessman responsible for losing their investments in a failed local development project.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When a curate dies tragically at a festival revival, some villagers of Midsomer Parva suspect black magic. Barnaby and Scott unravel a centuries-old mystery, complicated by Scott's attraction to a schoolteacher who has been branded a witch by the village.
Not rated.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When Jerry Burton moves to Lymstock to convalesce after a motorcycle crash, he meets villagers who traffic in gossip and double-entendres. But the accusations in several anonymous poison-pen letters go beyond the usual prattle. In fact, scandalous hate mail leads two citizens to commit suicide. Or were they murdered? With her keen powers of observation and quiet common-sense analysis, Miss Marple uncovers the shameful secrets that sent a quaint village...
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