Artist Suzie Colebrook is electrocuted by a roulette wheel shortly after discovering a break-in at her home in Luxton Deeping.Artist Suzie Colebrook is electrocuted by a roulette wheel shortly after discovering a break-in at her home in Luxton Deeping.Artist Suzie Colebrook is electrocuted by a roulette wheel shortly after discovering a break-in at her home in Luxton Deeping.
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- TriviaUna Stubbs plays Audrey Braylesford in this episode. She previously played the role of Selina Jennings in episode 1.2, Written in Blood (1998).
- GoofsOne victim is crushed to death in a printing press, resulting in text being printed neatly all over his face and body. However, as the press closed it would not be able to print text cleanly and exactly around the curvature of his head and body. Instead, the body would show signs of extensive crush injuries and the printed text would be distorted round the curves.
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[last lines]
Sarah Barnaby: So you're free, then?
DCI John Barnaby: Absolutely. So, um, why don't we go to the park, and then I can take us all out for a meal. A bit of, uh, quality family time.
Sarah Barnaby: Great, love to.
DCI John Barnaby: Me, too.
[the baby sneezes]
DCI John Barnaby: Ah, little...
Sarah Barnaby: Or... can I be honest?
DCI John Barnaby: Please.
Sarah Barnaby: We could just stay in.
DCI John Barnaby: Can we?
Sarah Barnaby: Why didn't you just say?
DCI John Barnaby: Why didn't you?
Sarah Barnaby: It's exhausting having a baby, isn't it?
DCI John Barnaby: Totally. And absolutely wonderful.
[Sykes whimpers and growls, holding his leash in his mouth]
DCI John Barnaby: Come on, then.
[Sykes barks joyfully]
Suzie was the alleged girlfriend of a writer of thrillers, the late George Summersbee, and she illustrated his books, the Jed Dagger novels.
Meanwhile, there's a crime fiction festival going on, arranged for by Maggie Markham Summersbee, the wife of George's brother Nick, a doctor. He's written George's biography. It turns out that George's daughter Bella is his sole heir, not his estranged wife.
Meanwhile, there is supposedly another book somewhere, but no one can find the manuscript. There's a second murder via roulette wheel, and Barnaby realizes (thanks to Nelson) that the murders follow killings in the Dagger books.
Lots of people want the missing manuscript, but some feel it is a fake. It will take Barnaby time away from his beautiful new baby to solve this one.
I thought this was pretty good, and it is nice to see Barnaby and Sarah so in love with the baby. Nelson again shows he is an excellent partner to Barnaby. The denouement is interesting when the whodunit is finally revealed.
- blanche-2
- Sep 26, 2016
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- Long Crendon Courthouse, High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(Luxton Deeping Bookshop)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 16:9 HD