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title: "Midsomer Murders: Set Eight (The Maid in Splendour / The Straw Woman / Ghosts of Christmas Past)"
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# Midsomer Murders: Set Eight (The Maid in Splendour / The Straw Woman / Ghosts of Christmas Past)

**Brand:** john nettles; john hopkinscaroline graham
**Price:** KSh12586
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- **What is this?** Midsomer Murders: Set Eight (The Maid in Splendour / The Straw Woman / Ghosts of Christmas Past) by john nettles; john hopkinscaroline graham
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Product Description          What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer... The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with John Hopkins (Love in a Cold Climate) as his brash young assistant. Guest stars include John Burgess, William Gaunt, Freddie Jones, Keith Barron, and Margery Mason. The Mysteries The Maid in SplendourMidsomer Worthys beloved local pub figures in a case involving unrequited love, secret business deals, and passionate affairs. The Straw WomanScott becomes bewitched by a village schoolteacher as he and Barnaby unravel a centuries-old mystery in Midsomer Parva. Ghosts of Christmas PastBarnaby escapes Christmas with his in-laws only to be thrust into the shadowy world and dark secrets of the mysterious Villiers family. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE John Nettles interview, Midsomer map, Caroline Graham biography, and cast filmographies.             .com          Idyllic Midsomer county has an alarmingly high mortality rate--at least on television. As actor John Nettles comments in a charming interview, after several series of the murder mystery program Midsomer Murders only a handful of villagers would be left alive. The show's writers tried to lower the body count to a more plausible number, but viewers complained, so Midsomer is as lethal as ever. Set Eight, featuring three episodes from Midsomer Murders' seventh series, racks up its share of corpses as the ever-observant DCI Barnaby (Nettles) and his brash right hand man Dan Scott (John Hopkins) sort through a tale of unrequited love and secret real estate deals that mirrors an old legend, a collision of the church and pagan ways that sparks several flaming deaths, and a Christmas gathering that turns murderous as the truth about a long-ago suicide comes out. Midsomer Murders is topnotch: The 90-100 minute episode length allows each episode to unfold intricate plots while cultivating a distinct atmosphere and establishing vivid characters. Anchoring it all is Nettles, whose combination of gravitas and sly wit make him not only an excellent detective but a delightful and engaging personality. Hopkins is less charismatic, but he provides a suitable foil for his senior colleague. Aside from the interview with Nettles, the extras are modest: A map of the county, a handful of cast filmographies, and a slender bit of biography about Caroline Graham, the mystery novelist who created DCI Barnaby and his rural miasma of passion, jealousy, and bitter revenge. --Bret Fetzer             
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                     Review          If great acting, great storytelling, and gripping drama is what you want, Midsomer Murders: Set Eight provides it all. -- Movie WebRecommended - a welcome respite from the flash and noise of detective shows on tv today. -- DVD Talk, March 6, 20074 Stars - Nettles combination of gravitas and sly wit make him an excellent detective and a delightful and engaging personality. -- Tulsa Review           See more

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Kids & Family
- **Format:** Widescreen, Box set, Color
- **Contributor:** John Nettles; John Hopkins, Caroline Graham
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 5 hours

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EXTREME COMFORT
*by A***R on April 2, 2007*

For many years now, I've been able to depend on the "Midsommer Murders" series bring me good entertainment that always resulted in me having extreme comfort in the knowledge that I would be viewing a series that contained some wonderful acting, great stories with "jolly good" mysteries and some very interesting characters. This three disc, three episode (about a 100 minutes each) Season Eight is no exception. Barnaby played wonderfully by John Nettles is back along with his "new" sidekick a kind of cynical Sergeant Dan Scott as played by John Hopkins. As in season seven, they are still making a "good team" solving dastardly murders in supposedly peaceful Midsommer village. Barnaby on an occasion does wonderfully lose his patience with Sergeant Dan Scott; however, as I've said before, he does it like a "favorite" uncle would do it and Sergeant Dan Scott does in this season deserve to be taken down a "notch or two"---he does seem to think that he has all of the ladies in a swoon including Barnaby's wife and daughter. Nevertheless, on my part, there were never any longings for homophobic Troy (Barnaby's former partner). I do still like Scott's demeanor and humor and I do think he and Barnaby make a good team for as long as it may last.All in all this is a really good season with murder/mysteries that are intriguing and interesting enough to keep one awake and alert; however, complicated enough to keep one guessing just who might have done the deed. The "body count" is still rather large; however, the length (about 100 minutes)of each episode, allows each case to be solved splendidly with many false leads of "who done it?"; plus, it allows a fine introduction to some eccentric and fascinating inhabitants of Midsommer--what a great assortment! It kept me always guessing the outcome--jolly good!(By the way, the episode called "The ghosts of Christmas Past" is marvelous. It is filled with villiagers singing Xmas Carols, plum pudding, questionable suicides, magic, murders, spooky houses, a very precocious kid, etc. After one views that episode "visions of sugar plums" WON'T be dancing through one's head. It's really good and mysterious!)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Magnificent Midsomer Murders
*by S***A on September 10, 2013*

This review will have to suffice for all the other "Midsomer Murders" DVD's we have purchased and will buy in the future!These Amazon issued Midsomer Murders are truly magnificent! Each takes place in a small British village that has been around for centuries. The people have secrets that have been around nearly as long and festered! Everyone thinks that they know all there is to know about one another, but they don't. Something happens to rile someone enough to off his or her neighbor which brings in our familiar, reliable, intelligent Chief Inspector Barnaby and while he and his assistant attempt to find out what has happened yet another person bites the dust! We get involved in the lives of the police and C.I. Barnaby's family and, of course, the people in the villages.Each "Murder" in each Set lasts nearly 2 hours and there are nearly always 4 units in each Set so one gets nearly 8 wonderful hours of viewing. We ration ours carefully. We were delighted to find out that there are far more sets than we had been seeing on our PBS TV station, which seems to have gotten to only Set 8 or 9. Maybe 10? Having seen those 2 or 3 times each and now seeing that the sets go up to number 22 via Amazon we are very, very happy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More Murders in Midsumer
*by D***H on June 4, 2014*

I will admit in the interest of transparency that I am addicted to Tom Barnaby and Midsumer. The lush meadows, spooky woods, fairy tale cottages and mansions, and characters, so eccentric they could only live in insular English villages, all combine to trap the viewer in a world that probably doesn't exist anymore if it ever really did. I defy anyone to hate being so trapped.And the murders! Wonderful murders committed by a variety of baddies for a variety of motives, using a variety of weapons: knives, swords, ligatures of all kinds, poisons, assorted blunt instruments, and the shotgun. All mystery lovers and Anglophiles ought to own all the Midsumer Murders DVDs.

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