The Curse of the Ninth is the sixth episode of the nineteenth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired 27th August 2017 in Australia and 20th May 2018 in UK.
Synopsis[]
DCI Barnaby and DS Winter uncover multiple motives when the winner of a fought-after music award is found strangled with a violin string moments before a performance, including rivalry over the prize, disagreements about the music festival business, and a missing Stradivarius violin.
Plot[]
Jacob Wheeler wins the Thassington classical music festival, run by pompous composer Michael Falconer, but is afterwards strangled with a violin string and a valuable Stradivarius on loan to him is stolen. Several people, including impecunious musician Vernon De Harthog and publican Audrey Glenhill, feel that pianist Zak Sowande should have won the bursary and then Vernon, an opponent of Michael and his son Dan, is poisoned. Further confusion arises on the discovery that Jacob was actually an impostor. The violin thief is caught but old family secrets are laid bare as DCI Barnaby must decide whether the killings support the superstition surrounding Falconer's latest symphony - the curse of the ninth. Meanwhile, Kam Karimore struggles to tell DS Jamie Winter that she is leaving Midsomer for a job offer in Montreal, Quebec; Canada.
Cast[]
- Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby
- Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter
- Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby
- Manjinder Virk as Dr. Kam Karimore
- Callum Blake as Leon Hunt/Jacob Wheeler
- Simon Callow as Vernon De Harthog
- Colin Michael Carmichael as Ivo Baxter
- Robert Daws as Hamish Rafferty
- James Fleet as Michael Falconer
- Rosie Holden as Candice Rafferty
- Matthew Jacobs Morgan as Zak Sowande (as Matthew Jacobs-Morgan)
- Caroline Langrishe as Janey Rafferty
- Cyril Nri as Warwick Sowande
- Maggie O'Neill as Audrey Glenhill
- Joseph Prowen as Dan Falconer
- Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Natalie Wheeler
- Peter Coe as Concert Audience (uncredited)
- Daniel Eghan as Party Priest (uncredited)
- Stephen Hawke as Midsomer Police Officer (uncredited)
- Michael Haydon as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Ty Hurley as Theatre Goer (uncredited)
- Guy Normas as Festival Concert Goer (uncredited)
- Nick Owenford as Frankenstein's Monster (uncredited)
- Mike Ray as Concert Goer (uncredited)
- Atul Sharma as Concert Goer (uncredited)
- Graham Warren as French Horn Player (uncredited)
- Jo Wheatley as Festival Goer (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)
Galleries[]
Body Count[]
Prior to the Episode
Died of natural causes.
Pushed in a tunnel and left for dead.
Killed in a car crash with his wife 5 years ago.
Killed in a car crash with her husband 5 years ago.
In the Episode
Strangled with a string from his violin and then had music sheets from the song Totenfeier put in his mouth.
Inhaled Strychnine Poison that was imbedded on the strings and bows of his viola while he was playing it. Cause of death was asphyxiation.
Body Count Notes[]
- Leon Hunt, an expert hacker and conman, came to Midsomer and assumed the identity of Jacob Wheeler.
- The real Jacob Wheeler died more than 13 years prior to the episode.
Supporting Cast[]
Episode Images[]
Video[]
Midsomer Murders Series 19 Episode 6 - The Curse of the Ninth Preview
Notes[]
- Last appearance of Dr. Kam Karimore who is leaving to take a job in Montreal.
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have also appeared in the following episodes
- Maggie O'Neill - The Straw Woman
- Robert Daws - Hidden Depths
- James Fleet - Sauce for the Goose
- Simon Callow - Dead Letters
- Caroline Langrishe - Blood on the Saddle
- Atul Sharma - The Night of the Stag, The Dagger Club, The Incident at Cooper Hill and Send in the Clowns
- Nick Owenford - The Killings of Copenhagen
- Daniel Eghan - Last Man Out and Drawing Dead
- Peter Coe - Death by Persuasion and The Ghost of Causton Abbey