- When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.
- The villages of Upper and Lower Warden have been feuding since the days of Cromwell and the Civil War, but now the feud has taken a deadly turn. Larry Smith, the star of a horror film titled The House of Satan, based on events centuries ago, is murdered. Smith is the son of the preeminent local family, the Smythe-Websters. His father is the local vicar, his uncle is the lord of the manor and another uncle is the producer of the movie. Some residents of Lower Warden object to the fact that an important piece of local history has been turned into a cheap horror film. Is this enough to kill or is it that there are dark secrets that offer a more serious explanation? When a second member of the Smythe-Websters is killed, Barnaby believes in the latter and looks into the family history to find the solution.—garykmcd
- * *At the family home of actor Larry 'Smit'h in the village of Upper Warden, a crowd has gathered to watch the promotion for the sequel to his hit film 'The House of Satan', but when Larry walks into a summerhouse house in the grounds, it suddenly explodes. His rich Smythe-Webster family, which dominates the area, quickly suggest that it was someone from the rival village of Lower Warden, whose lower class rival with Upper since Cromwell's revolution, and produced the author Ellis Bell, whose socially critical novel was tuned over, tricking the book ship owner who wrote a script from it, into a commercial horror flick, without even paying him. The director, Larry's uncle Frank Webster, is electrocuted by his sabotaged exercise bike. As all Smythe-Websters have secrets and the eldest surviving brother is heir to the grand estate, Barnaby and Troy investigate blackmail, affairs, secrets and more to find out why and if it's only one killer. Vicar -always a junior estate son- Simon Smythe-Webster points at the commoner "weasels of the wild wood", especially Lower villagers holding menial jobs, like popular ex-con Danny Pinchel, now the family's cook, whom Barnaby suspects but is bloodily murdered himself.—KGF Vissers
- Someone is decimating the ancient Smythe-Webster family of Upper Warden, and the bad blood between the villages of Upper and Lower Warden is renewed with a vengeance. First, young heart-throb actor Larry Smith (alias Laurence Smythe-Webster) dies in an explosion at a publicity event for a new film. House of Satan is based on a book by a local writer, the late Ellis Bell of Lower Warden - a village whose inhabitants are referred to by its Vicar, the Reverend Simon Smythe-Webster, as "the weasels of the wild wood". The next to die is Larry's uncle, House of Satan producer Frank Webster (Francis Smythe-Webster), electrocuted to death on his exercise bike.Finally, Barnaby's principal suspect, Danny Pinchel, the family's cook, is drowned in a large bowl of tomato soup... Barnaby realizes he is dealing with an historic grudge, and he inquires into the family's antecedents.—van_whistler@hotmail.co.uk
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