Midsomer Murders: Set 11
starring: John Nettles, Barry Jackson
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Studio: Acorn MediaRelease Date: 10/07/2008Run time: 400 minutes
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Midsomer Murders, Set 11 presents four more gruesome yet impish mysteries from this ever-dependable series. DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) is joined by his latest protégé, DC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) as they investigate roiling emotions and rash acts in rural England. In The House in the Woods, Nettles first meets Jones while delving into the case of a young house-hunting couple who are garroted in their car. A girl in a bee costume finds a drowned woman' body in Dead Letters, in which a long-dead beauty queen is linked to a series of present-day deaths. The past haunts the present in Vixen's Run, only it's sex and parentage that have been covered up--when a wealthy glutton dies of natural causes, nastiness soon spreads among his heirs, while a series of rhymed clues lead fortune-hunters on the trail of lost emeralds. And in Down Among the Dead Men, the shooting of an obsessive neat-freak reveals a web of blackmail that many involve a policeman that Barnaby deeply respects. The scripts are consistently engaging (Vixen's Run, with its treasure puzzle subplot, is particularly fun), the supporting casts are full of stalwart British thespians (Simon Callow, of Four Weddings and a Funeral, chews the scenery with relish as a lecherous doctor in Dead Letters), and there's always at least one sequence of genuine suspense or spookiness. Nettles--staunch, good-humored, and doggedly determined to catch the culprit--provides a calm axis for all the enjoyable mayhem and pettiness to wheel around. (Newcomers need not shy away, every 100-minute episode is self-contained.) --Bret Fetzer
Studio: Acorn MediaRelease Date: 10/07/2008Run time: 400 minutes
Amazon.com:
Midsomer Murders, Set 11 presents four more gruesome yet impish mysteries from this ever-dependable series. DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) is joined by his latest protégé, DC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) as they investigate roiling emotions and rash acts in rural England. In The House in the Woods, Nettles first meets Jones while delving into the case of a young house-hunting couple who are garroted in their car. A girl in a bee costume finds a drowned woman' body in Dead Letters, in which a long-dead beauty queen is linked to a series of present-day deaths. The past haunts the present in Vixen's Run, only it's sex and parentage that have been covered up--when a wealthy glutton dies of natural causes, nastiness soon spreads among his heirs, while a series of rhymed clues lead fortune-hunters on the trail of lost emeralds. And in Down Among the Dead Men, the shooting of an obsessive neat-freak reveals a web of blackmail that many involve a policeman that Barnaby deeply respects. The scripts are consistently engaging (Vixen's Run, with its treasure puzzle subplot, is particularly fun), the supporting casts are full of stalwart British thespians (Simon Callow, of Four Weddings and a Funeral, chews the scenery with relish as a lecherous doctor in Dead Letters), and there's always at least one sequence of genuine suspense or spookiness. Nettles--staunch, good-humored, and doggedly determined to catch the culprit--provides a calm axis for all the enjoyable mayhem and pettiness to wheel around. (Newcomers need not shy away, every 100-minute episode is self-contained.) --Bret Fetzer
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Average Rating:
Rating: - Midsomer Murders, Set 11
The Midsomer Murder series are excellent, everything you want in an English murder mystery.I hope to buy more of these cds.
Rating: - Midsomer Murders 11
Well up to the usual high standards of the Midsomer Murders series!
Package arrived on-time and in good playable condition.
Rating: - Midsomer finally reaches its potential!
I've never been a huge fan of this show, compared to other, much better, British murder mysteries, although I always rented them and enjoyed them and wished they were better. In the early seasons the characters were written inconsistently from one episode to the next, and all too often the stories were very far-fetched or convoluted. But - still fun, and who doesn't love Barnaby?
I purchased set 11 because I didn't want to wait for Netflix, and I figured I could sell it after I was ... Read More
Rating: - mystery
This is an excellent mystery series.We have bought the entire series.It is beautifully filmed and acted and the stories are entertaining.
Rating: 
- Young John Nettles
Any American viewers taken with John Nettles might care to see him in the tv crime series that established him as a household name in the UK. The series was called Bergerac(after the character played by John) and is set on the charming island of Jersey(which is part of the UK, but is in fact close to Brittany in France). Dvds of the series are available on Amazon.co.uk. You could a taster by checking out clips on Youtube.
- Midsomer Murders, Set 11The Midsomer Murder series are excellent, everything you want in an English murder mystery.I hope to buy more of these cds.
- Midsomer Murders 11Well up to the usual high standards of the Midsomer Murders series!
Package arrived on-time and in good playable condition.
- Midsomer finally reaches its potential!I've never been a huge fan of this show, compared to other, much better, British murder mysteries, although I always rented them and enjoyed them and wished they were better. In the early seasons the characters were written inconsistently from one episode to the next, and all too often the stories were very far-fetched or convoluted. But - still fun, and who doesn't love Barnaby?
I purchased set 11 because I didn't want to wait for Netflix, and I figured I could sell it after I was ... Read More
- mysteryThis is an excellent mystery series.We have bought the entire series.It is beautifully filmed and acted and the stories are entertaining.
- Young John NettlesAny American viewers taken with John Nettles might care to see him in the tv crime series that established him as a household name in the UK. The series was called Bergerac(after the character played by John) and is set on the charming island of Jersey(which is part of the UK, but is in fact close to Brittany in France). Dvds of the series are available on Amazon.co.uk. You could a taster by checking out clips on Youtube.
