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The Inspector Barnaby Mysteries [Vol. 1]
The first three Chief Inspector Barnaby mysteries, the basis for the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The Killing at Badger’s Drift: After a spinster is murdered in the seemingly quaint village of Badger’s Drift, her best friend kicks up a fuss, attracting attention from Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. When Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy begin poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness . . .
“Murder most pleasing . . . a corking good mystery.” —Los Angeles Times
Death of a Hollow Man : A leading man is murdered during a performance in a small English village, and Inspector Barnaby and his deputy are on the case. While Barnaby may lack certain skills as a theater critic, he is just the man to catch a killer . . .
“A theatrical whodunit worthy of a deep bow.”—The New York Times
Death in Disguise: The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune’s leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. Now Chief Inspector Barnaby must separate rumor from reality in a case where the facts are often stranger than fiction . . .
“Wonderfully funny, with such solid, traditional underpinnings as good plotting, judiciously dropped clues, and a luminescent turn of a likely-to-be New Age classic.”—Kirkus Reviews
The Killing at Badger’s Drift: After a spinster is murdered in the seemingly quaint village of Badger’s Drift, her best friend kicks up a fuss, attracting attention from Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. When Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy begin poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness . . .
“Murder most pleasing . . . a corking good mystery.” —Los Angeles Times
Death of a Hollow Man : A leading man is murdered during a performance in a small English village, and Inspector Barnaby and his deputy are on the case. While Barnaby may lack certain skills as a theater critic, he is just the man to catch a killer . . .
“A theatrical whodunit worthy of a deep bow.”—The New York Times
Death in Disguise: The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune’s leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. Now Chief Inspector Barnaby must separate rumor from reality in a case where the facts are often stranger than fiction . . .
“Wonderfully funny, with such solid, traditional underpinnings as good plotting, judiciously dropped clues, and a luminescent turn of a likely-to-be New Age classic.”—Kirkus Reviews
1181 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2023
About the author
Caroline Graham
17 books637 followersCaroline Graham is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She attended the Open University, and received a degree in writing for the theatre from the University of Birmingham.
Series:
* Chief Inspector Barnaby
Series:
* Chief Inspector Barnaby
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March 4, 2025
Returning to Barnaby 20 years or so later, I'm not as enthralled as once I was. These novels are very long on back-story of characters and short on investigative exposition. Excellent reading for a month or so in a hospital bed. Easy to pick up (if you remember who all the characters are) and easy to put down (the denouement is often restrained).
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