Vintage Midsomer from the first Season!
Written In Blood
It’s Midsomer’s cleaners you have to feel sorry for.
I wonder if, during their job interview, they’re warned that at some point in
their career they will inevitably discover the murdered corpse of one of their
employers. The thing to do is scream at the top of their voice even though
nobody else is in the house! In this second ever episode the battered body of
Gerald Hadleigh is discovered by his unfortunate cleaner the morning after a
somewhat tense writer’s group meeting. Hadleigh turns out to be someone who
nobody really knew- even his fellow authors only met him once a month which
seems a bit odd given how small the village of Midsomer Worthy is. Mind you
most people seem to move about under cover of darkness. The mystery of not just
who killed Hadleigh but who he was forms the spine of this storyline which
suggests that writers are even crazier than their characters.
