Undertaker Patrick Pennyman is found dead with his wrists slashed and suspicion turns towards a spiritualist church.

During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

A four-member syndicate owns a racehorse that two of them are desperate to sell and two of them are determined to keep. When one of them is murdered, Barnaby is on the case.

John Ransom collapses and dies outside a pub after a fight with his brother-in-law over the baptism of his niece. He has electrical scars across the top of his head.

Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home; is this suicide disguised as murder?

When a corporate giant tries to acquire a small but respected relish factory owned and run by a dysfunctional family, a naked body is found in the warehouse.

Deaths follow the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction.