5. The Maid in Splendour (2004)
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.
Release date: 2004-01-25
User rating:
6.86 / 10
7 votes
Season number: 7
Episode number: 5
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: Richard Holthouse
Writer: Andrew Payne
Guest stars
Alan Cox
as Stephen Bannerman
Siobhan Hewlett
as Amanda
Frances Tomelty
as Audrey Monday
William Gaunt
as Michael Bannerman
Freddie Jones
as Benbow
Elaine Donnelly
as Maureen Cruickshank
Sophie Hunter
as Bella Monday
Leon Ockenden
as Jamie Cruickshank
Raymond Coulthard
as Lawrence Haggard
Dave Hill
as Clive Cruickshank
Peter-Hugo Daly
as Wesley
John Sackville
as Architect
Cast
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Rachel Power - Lorna Bannerman, Stephen Beresford - Marcus Poole