Jamie Cruickshank, a bartender at the Maid in Splendour public house, is keen on Bella Monday, a barmaid, and follows her to a tumbledown old cottage in the woods, only to be blasted with a twelve-bore shotgun. Then the pub landlord's son, Stephen Bannerman, is also killed in the same way. Barnaby finds there was ill-feeling between locals and newcomers to the village and also between the landlord and his aggressive son, who was in the process of taking over the business.
Quest roles:
Elaine Donnelly(Maureen Cruickshank), Alan Cox(Stephen Bannerman), Siobhan Hewlett(Amanda), Frances Tomelty(Audrey Monday), William Gaunt(Ludo DeQuetteville), Freddie Jones(Benbow), Sophie Hunter(Bella Monday), Leon Ockenden(Jamie Cruickshank), Ray Coulthard(Lawrence Haggard), Dave Hill(Clive Cruickshank), Peter-Hugo Daly(Archie Kemp), Rachel Power(Lorna Bannerman), Stephen Beresford(Marcus Poole), John Sackville(Architect)