Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10759 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-05-13
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 400 minutes

Amazon.com
Acorn Media presents a beautifully realized boxed set that brings to life all the ghastliness and arch humor of Caroline Graham's intriguing mystery series. Set 1 includes four episodes: Death's Shadow, Strangler's Wood, Blood Will Out, and Beyond the Grave Each is set in a different village in the quaint but surprisingly lethal Midsomer County, complete with sharp portraits of the love and loathing that small-town life can breed. John Nettles plays Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with a wry wit, a satisfyingly keen-but-not-supernatural intelligence, and a deep understanding of human nature. Daniel Casey as the much younger Sergeant Troy has a somewhat tougher job, painting his younger policeman's character in shorter bits over the course of the series, but he becomes a most welcome face. The series is beautifully acted and produced and the solutions are satisfying--not a clinker in the bunch. The DVDs include selected cast filmographies, a biography of author Caroline Graham, and a map of Midsomer County. --Ali Davis

From the Back Cover
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these darkly humorous British television mysteries. John Nettles stars as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with Daniel Casey as Sergeant Troy, his brash young assistant. Based on the novels by Caroline Graham, a modern master of the English village mystery. The Mysteries: Death's Shadow-A string of bizarre murders in Badgers Drift leads to the discovery of a long buried secret; Strangler's Wood-The strangling of a beautiful Brazilian, whose body is found in Raven's Wood, harks back to three earlier murders; Blood Will Out-Rival clans of travelers disrupt the peace of Martyr Warren and incense the local magistrate; and Beyond the Grave-Unearthly happenings in and around the Aspern Tallow museum create an atmosphere of terror. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE Midsomer map, cast filmographies, Caroline Graham biography and scene index.

Customer Reviews

GOOD SURPRIZE
midsomer murders series is really enjoyable t.v. i always thought anything on bbc was dull and boring.this series prove me wrong ,it keeps you guessing to last minute.i will be getting other show.i've become addict.

Exceptional Series
I've seen about twenty of the Midsomer Murders and they are uniformly excellent. They represent a nice blurring of subgenres. At first they appear to be classic English mysteries, i.e. cozies--with the shrewd detective, the loyal assistant and a collection of village types (as we move from village to village within the county). The difference is that the stories are far more realistic and far more bloody. The characters are less quaint and chummy than those in cozies and far closer to the denizens of the world of crime fiction. The settings are beautiful, of course, though there is darkness and rain echoing the violence of the stories. The result is something for everyone--the lover of cozies, the lover of crime and detection and the lover of the English countryside. The continuing characters are attractive and engaging and each supporting cast usually includes one or two mainstays of the English theatrical community. The series is very entertaining, very thoughtful and characterized by strong production values. Go for it.

Midsomer madness
If you love a British murder mystery, you will love Midsomer Murders. Agatha updated with all the fun and mystery.