For once, Barnaby has little need in this episode to solve the murder in the last four seconds by exercising his stunning powers of intuition and solving the murder through intuitive guesswork based on years of brilliant detective experience. Although he does indeed come up near the end with the requisite insight while nearly dying from his partner's driving, Barnaby puts on a fairly believable show in this episode. The plot unwinds brilliantly, keeping at least this reviewer baffled right up to the end. It's very sad that the series descended from this standard of excellence into the same bombastically incredible plots that have fractured other formerly excellent programs as well (New Age wizard kills ten children in druggy haze at annual Festival of the Green Pumpkin held in an Oxford dorm whose most brilliant student is the evil grandson of Hitler's chauffeur). Getting back to the point: This was an excellent episode.
Review of Dead Man's Eleven
