In this series, inspired by real events during World War II, the kind, intelligent and worrisome Albert Foiret runs both a café, which is the only notable public house in a small Belgian town, where locals therefore naturally mix with the Nazi occupation forces, and a just as publicity-shy (even his bed-ridden wife knows nothing) network of the Belgian resistance, devoted to th...
Jedrington's unknown past comes back to haunt him in the form of the bitter lawyer Mr Malifax Skulkingworm (Stephen Fry). Skulkingworm finds a loophole in the law and has Jedrington's shop confiscated and family thrown into the debtor's prison. With just hours before the Big Ben strikes twelve to herald in Christmas day, Jedrington must race against the clock to save his family...
Morse and Lewis investigate the murder of a young woman, Sylvia Kane, found dead in a pub car park. She was last seen at a bus stop asking for the times of the bus to Woodstock and was to meet as friend at the same pub where she was found. She had accepted a lift from someone in a red car and the police find an envelope on the dead girl addressed to Jennifer Coleby, a co-worker...
在传说中,印度的月亮神身上有一颗非常名贵的宝石流落人间,被代代相传。一位名叫约翰(泰伦斯·哈德曼 Terrence Hardiman 饰)的英国军官在殖民印度的时候发现并且夺走了这枚宝石,将它带回英国。然而,这枚宝石虽然名贵,但是却仿佛被诅咒了一般,每一个它的所有者,最终都会死于非命。与此同时,三名印度婆罗门教徒远渡重洋来到英国,身为宝石的守护者,他们发誓无论付出任何的代价都要夺回这宝物。
临死之前,约翰将宝石交给了自己的外甥女蕾切尔(凯莉·霍威 Keeley Hawes 饰)作为她的生日礼物,哪知道这份好意打破了姑娘平静的生活。当晚,宝石不翼而飞,蕾切尔踏上了寻找宝石小偷的旅途。
30 years ago, archaeologist Paul Heartley-Reade claimed to have found a Celtic spear and chalice in Midsomer Barrow. The relics vanished and there has over the years been extensive debate in academic circles about the find. When the spear is used to kill Gareth Heldman, Barnaby and Sgt. Scott find themselves investigating several local villagers including Harry Green who was fe...