Accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct on the river are bedevilling the Midsomer game fishermen, and Barnaby has to interview elegant widow Isobel Hewitt, a spendthrift, fast-living, Jaguar-driving 75-year-old, when another lady fly-fisher accuses her of a violent assault. Then first Isobel and later her fellow villager Dr Duncan Goff are found on the river-bank with their skulls smashed in, and there is no shortage of suspects - including an antique dealer who apparently specializes in befriending elderly widows. The picture is confused when one of the suspects, chef-restaurateur Keith Scholey, is found frozen to death in his walk-in deep freeze, with the lock of the door jammed by a nail. Troy has a theory that Scholey was the killer and has made his suicide look like murder, but will that be the end of the affair?
Quest roles:
Jeff Rawle(Gerry Dawkins), Will Knightley(Max Fuller), Peter Cellier(Peregrine Slade), Amanda Root(Ruth Scholey), James Hazeldine(Leo Bantock), Honor Blackman(Isobel Hewitt), Philip Franks(Quentin Roka), Jonathan Cullen(Melrose Plunkett), Suzanne Burden(Zukie Richardson), Susan Wooldridge(Margaret Seagrove), Jane Downs(Dixie Goff), John Warnaby(Keith Scholey), Eileen Page(Beatrice), Richard Durden(Duncan Goff), Alison Rose(Angela Goff), Ian Peck(Wilberforce), Malcolm Raeburn(Hotel Manager), Sidney Livingstone(Don Mitchinson), Robert Putt(Oyster Man), June Barrie(Gwen Dobson), Roger Swaine(Costumer)