The Dagger Club is the first episode of the seventeenth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and was originally aired on 28th January 2015.
Synopsis[]
The unveiling of a newly-discovered novel by deceased Midsomer crime-writer George Summersbee at the Luxton Deeping Crime Festival is jeopardised when the manuscript is stolen and a woman is fatally electrocuted by a booby-trapped roulette wheel. Can new dad DCI Barnaby untangle a web of jealousy and obsession to find the killer?
Plot[]
Suzie Colebrooke is electrocuted by a roulette wheel sent to her house. She was the legal executor and supposed lover of thriller writer George Summersbee whose Jed Dagger novels she also illustrated. At the same time a newly discovered manuscript by George of an unpublished Dagger story is stolen from Suzie's home. A local crime fiction festival is going on, run by Maggie Markham, whose doctor husband Nick Summersbee has written his brother George's biography whilst George's daughter Bella, rather than estranged wife Jeannie, is his sole heir. Following a second murder Barnaby finds out that both were copied from killings in a Dagger novel though the victim was a stranger to Suzie. There are a number of people anxious for different reasons to locate the missing manuscript but there are also suggestions that it is a fake. Furthermore there are differing accounts of George's death. Barnaby has to resort to the printed page to solve the mystery of the Dagger club.
Cast[]
- Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby
- Gwilym Lee as DS Charlie Nelson
- Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby
- Tamzin Malleson as Kate Wilding
- Una Stubbs as Audrey Braylesford
- Georgia Taylor as Bella Summersbee
- Charlotte Cornwell as Jeannie Summersbee
- Lia Williams as Maggie Markham
- Adam Kotz as Nick Summersbee
- Howard Ward as Niall Colebrooke
- Simon Kunz as Miles Rattigan
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Rob Mead
- Ed Birch as Curtis Braylesford
- Grant Russell as George Summersbee
- Timothy Watson as Vincent Treaborne
- James Lance as Silas Raven
- Oona Kirsch as Suzie Colebrooke
- Liberty Mills as Cecilie Petersen
- Raj Awasti as Art Buyer (uncredited)
- Paul Blackwell as Art Collector (uncredited)
- Pamela Betsy Cooper as Author (uncredited)
- Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro as Book Club Guest (uncredited)
- Anthony Farrelly as Art Buyer (uncredited)
- Susan Fordham as Book Festival Guest (uncredited)
- Taj Gill as Woman (uncredited)
- David Golt as Art Gallery Bidder (uncredited)
- Stephen McDade as Art Collector (uncredited)
- Bharat Mistri as Postman (uncredited)
- John Neville as Art Buyer (uncredited)
- Shaun Newnham as Book Author (uncredited)
- Terry Noble as Art Buyer (uncredited)
- Andrew Parker as Book festival visitor (uncredited)
- Leah Perkins as Folk Festival Goer (uncredited)
- Ricky Rajpal as Book Festival Guest (uncredited)
- Atul Sharma as Man (uncredited)
- June Smith as Book Fan, At Book Signing (uncredited)
- Vic Waghorn as Book Festival Attendee (uncredited)
- Allan Williams as Captain Birdseye (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)
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Prior to the Episode
Died of natural causes 3 years ago. However, his body was taken to George's boat, dressed in his clothing and dropped in the water to be mangled by the propellers to make it appear that George died in an accident.
In the Episode
Received a package containing a boobytrapped roulette wheel with a note "To Suzie from Maggie. Whatever You Do Don't Touch The Spinner." and as she spinned it, was killed by a massive electrical shock from the roulette's mechanism.
Received a package containing a boobytrapped roulette wheel with a note "To Cecilie from Me. Whatever You Do Don't Touch The Spinner." and as she spinned it, was killed by a massive electrical shock from the roulette's mechanism.
Knocked unconscious by receiving a blow to the back of the head, possibly with a wood plank, then lifted onto a printing press and crushed to death.
Chased through the woods, then, once he was alone, was held from behind and stabbed in the left side of the neck with a dagger.
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Notes[]
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have also appeared in the following episodes
- Una Stubbs - Written in Blood
- Adam Kotz - A Worm in the Bud
- Simon Kunz - Bantling Boy
- Allan Williams - Fit For Murder
- Atul Sharma - The Night of the Stag, The Incident at Cooper Hill, The Curse of the Ninth and Send in the Clowns
- Paul Blackwell - Written in the Stars and The Sicilian Defence
- Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro - Death and the Divas, Let Us Prey, The Ghost of Causton Abbey and Death of the Small Coppers
- Taj Gill - The Sicilian Defence and Send in the Clowns
- Pamela Betsy Cooper - Schooled in Murder, The Christmas Haunting, The Killings of Copenhagen, Murder by Magic and Breaking the Chain
- John Neville - Let Us Prey, The Flying Club and Murder by Magic
- Andrew Parker - Let Us Prey, The Flying Club and Habeas Corpus
- Vic Waghorn - The Flying Club, Breaking the Chain and The Sting of Death
- Stephen McDade - Saints and Sinners and The Ghost of Causton Abbey
- Bharat Mistri - Breaking the Chain
- Shaun Newnham - Murder by Magic, The Incident at Cooper Hill and A Dying Art
- Ricky Rajpal - Murder by Magic, The Ballad of Midsomer County and A Vintage Murder