- Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.
- When an early copy of Midsomer's beloved (and dead) composer Joan Alder's most famous work surfaces, people start dying. Barnaby is an old friend of the family and investigates the deaths, plus delves into the mystery surrounding Joan's love life and the reasons she left the village years earlier. Questions about the authenticity of the work threaten Joan's ex-husband's claim to the royalties still generated by the music.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
- When retired music teacher Arthur Leggott is murdered after disturbing an intruder at his home in quiet Badger's Drift. It's discovered that a musical manuscript by the late composer Joan Alder, famous only for her Rhapsody, has since gone missing before being sent to a London auction. When the manuscript shows signs that it has been written by another hand, suggesting her lover was the Rhapsody's co-author, a handwritten letter by Joan Alder turns up indicating the manuscript is a masterly forgery. The lucrative royalties may be disputed from her well-settled husband by Joan's agent, the previously unknown South American daughter she present at a Rhapsody concert, vagrant Hedge who turns out her long-returned true lover John Farrow, who turns on her repentant father who drove them away. Where the 'manuscript' goes more murders follow further deceit.—KGF Vissers
- DCI Barnaby and Sgt. Scott investigate the murder of Arthur Leggott. The man had recently moved into a care home but was found dead in his house. He was a respected music teacher and had been a close friend of Joan Alder the late, great composer. There had been rumors that Leggott may have had in his belongings a rare piece of sheet music from Alder's early years. When such a piece turns up at auction, Barnaby is convinced it was stolen in the first place. Joan Alden's husband, her agent, a young woman who now claims to be her daughter, her putative father and an antique dealer are all suspects. As the death count rises the field of suspects narrows, but the solution lies in a letter handwritten by Joan Alder and and the infatuation of someone who loved her in their youth.—garykmcd
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