Market For Murder
| "Market For Murder" | |
|---|---|
| Midsomer Murders episode | |
 | |
| Episode no. |
Series Five Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Sarah Hellings |
| Written by | Andrew Payne |
| Original air date | 16 June 2002 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Guest actors | |
|
Jesse Birdsall (Harry Painter) | |
"Market For Murder" is the fourth episode of the fifth series of Midsomer Murders and the twenty second episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy.
Plot
In Midsomer Market, another beautiful yet deadly Midsomer village, Selwyn Procter's borrowed vintage car blows up . Police soon discover that someone had set this up - another criminal in this dangerous county? The next day, Selwyn's wife Tamsin attends a reading club (which is actually a group of women investing in the stock market) with some other ladies in the village, held by widow Marjorie Empsom. The night after the meeting, Marjorie dies at her home after falling down the stairs. DCI Barnaby and his team realise fell and was subsequently hit with her own walking stick. The villagers are shocked, and even more so when more deaths begin to occur. But one of them out there is a killer...[1]
Murders
Throughout the episode, there are 3 murders and one attempted murder:[2]
- Majorie Empson: Multiple blows to the back of her head with her walking stick after she had fallen down a flight of stairs.
- Ginny Sharp: Whilst fishing out ashtrays in her swimming pool (that were placed there by the murderer), Ginny is struck dead by an ashtray to the head.
- Lady Lavinia Chetwood: The murderer pushes Lady Chetwod off the roof of her Stately home.