- 7.4/109 votes
#1 - Destroying Angel
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/26/2001
Barnaby attends the funeral of the owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel and hears that the hotel manager has gone missing. The will is read, and it seems the hotel has been divided between the missing manager and his beautiful wife, the hotel's chef and its accountant.A dog finds the hotel manager's severed hand, and the others named in the will receive threatening notes. Then accidents start to happen to them all, including mushroom-poisoning, an apparently accidental shooting, a falling drinks cabinet and a sabotaged vehicle. Barnaby next learns that the missing hotel manager had in his possession a more recent will, which is also now missing....
Director: David Tucker
Writer: David Hoskins
- 7.2/106 votes
#2 - Who Killed Cock Robin?
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/2001
Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes. Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a disgraced Irish vet, then he recognizes the village's new squire as Melvyn Stockard, a retired villain. A body found in a well proves to be the father of the man Stockard's daughter is about to marry... everyone knows he was against the marriage, but is Stockard a killer, and where does the missing Irishman fit in?
Director: David Tucker
Writer: Jeremy Paul
- 6.9/107 votes
#3 - A Worm in the Bud
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2002
A suspicious suicide note has Barnaby wondering if foul play was involved in a young woman's death.
Director: David Tucker
Writer: Michael Russell