- During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.
- While attending the Midsomer Regatta with his wife Joyce and daughter Cully, Det. Chief Inspector Barnaby finds himself investigating the murder of Guy Sweetman, the rowing club's chairman who is found floating in the river. Sweetman was quite a ladies man and there is no end of suspects on that score. However, Barnaby and DS Scott also learn that the dead man was having frequent meetings with two other members of the club and may have had an arguments with them the evening he disappeared. As the investigation continues, the police learn that the secret meetings all had to do with money, or the lack of it as all involved were having financial difficulties. Not surprisingly, the motive for the murder is both greed and lust.—garykmcd
- The corpse of Guy Sweetman, bludgeoned president of the Midsommer rowing club, is found floating in the water during the annual regatta. No skirt was safe from the popular charmer, frustrating husbands and boy friends. Clubhouse barman and army veteran Vic Lynton rather points Barnaby to the secret meetings repeatedly held aboard the yacht serving as houseboat of fellow club official Phillip Trent, also attended by Guy, schoolteacher John Parkway, whose former pupil David Cooke blackmails him with recording of is own sexual conquests, and jeweler Ivan Hawkins. All of them have debts with Maltese crime don Freddie Bonavita, whose wife Clare mediated the loans and trains her lover, the club's potential Olympian Henry Charlton, who plans a holiday with Trent's man-eating daughter Hettie. A dark helmet-hidden motor-biker attacks people at home or in hospital, notably Trent's wife Sandra both. Scott's rowing and stakeout efforts ultimately pay off.—KGF Vissers
- It is the day of the annual Midsomer Regatta and Joyce is trying to persuade Barnaby to buy a boat but their peaceful day is interrupted by the discovery of a body in the river. Ladies' man Guy Sweetman was killed after arguing with his rowing club friends Phillip Trent and John Parkway. As Barnaby and Scott dig into the luxury lifestyles of the regatta set, they discover money problems and sexual jealousy are rife. Guy seems to have upset many people - but who killed him?—Anonymous
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