Hilary Inkpen is a character appearing in the episode Garden of Death of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders. She is the daughter of Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas and the younger half-sister of Felicity Inkpen-Thomas.
Biography[]
Born out of wedlock to Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas and Richard Deverell, Hilary was given to an orphanage at birth without her father's knowledge and was eventually adopted into a nice family. Years later, Hilary discovered her true parentage and tried to reunite with her biological family.
Hilary was given a job as a maid to the Inkpen's family estate and became increasingly traumatized by their cruel and jealous nature.
Though her mother seemingly cared for her enough to give her a job and welcome her into the Inkpen Family, both Hilary's grandmother Naomi Inkpen and her half-sister Fliss Inkpen-Thomas liked to treat her at best, with cruel indifference, and at worse, outright hostility believing that she was trying to worm her way into the inheritance.
Victims[]
- Felicity (Fliss) Inkpen-Thomas - Hit on the back of the head with a shovel and the body got covered with snails overnight.
- Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas - Ate a dish of aconite scrapings made to look like pasta that was left on her bedside table, but then as she felt the first effects and collapsed on the floor, was forced to eat more. Her room was then locked from the inside to make it appear as suicide.
- Augustus Deverell - Shot in his flank with a shotgun burgled from Rodney Widger; lived.
- Naomi Inkpen - Held hostage and attempted to shoot with a shotgun burgled from Rodney Widger; Hilary was arrested.