Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.
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- TriviaAt about 18:17 Inspector Barnaby refers to the poem by Rudyard Kipling, "Dane-geld", and the famous line, "once you have paid him the Dane-geld/ You never get rid of the Dane". Dane-geld (also spelled Danegeld) was money paid to Vikings and others in the Middle Ages to keep them from raiding England, now what one would call protection money or blackmail.
- GoofsBarnaby checks Hatchard's exemplary Hong Kong Police Service which puzzlingly fails to detail his arrest and imprisonment for people trafficking. Also Hatchard apparently bribed his way out of jail and made it back to England , set up a successful seafood business, but never bothered to change his name or disguise his identity and background.
- Quotes
Detective Constable Ben Jones: Sounds good, sir; a trip to the seaside. Should we toss for it?
DCI Tom Barnaby: I already did. I won.
- ConnectionsReferences The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Featured review
really enjoyed this one
"Down Among the Dead Men" from season 9 provides both mystery and humor as Barnaby and Jones try to solve a murder.
The opening has a very good looking man greeting a young woman who comes to his home. They talk -- she asks why he chose her...apparently she fit the requirements. She goes upstairs, gets into nightclothes, and climbs into a single bed in the guest room.
Downstairs, the man, Martin Barrett, is listening to the male/male duet from Pearl Fishers when a bullet comes through the window and kills him. The young woman upstairs hears the shot. But she's nowhere to be found when police arrive.
Turns out that this man has been blackmailing practically everyone in the community, so they have a lot of suspects. One man, a friend of Barnaby's, has been accused of inappropriate behavior toward young women in a home he ran; another is a pub owner who faked a tax return; and a couple who takes weekend trips to the sea and may be up to something.
I found Barnaby's and Jones' repartee very amusing, and Jones was especially funny. "You know," he tells one suspect. "I envy my boss. He always puts people at ease when he interviews them. What was Martin Barrett blackmailing you about?" There are some fun characters as well, including a cleaning woman whose husband is questioned. He doesn't give honest answers; every time he lies, his wife tells the detectives the truth.
Very good mystery with a slight twist at the end. Entertaining.
The opening has a very good looking man greeting a young woman who comes to his home. They talk -- she asks why he chose her...apparently she fit the requirements. She goes upstairs, gets into nightclothes, and climbs into a single bed in the guest room.
Downstairs, the man, Martin Barrett, is listening to the male/male duet from Pearl Fishers when a bullet comes through the window and kills him. The young woman upstairs hears the shot. But she's nowhere to be found when police arrive.
Turns out that this man has been blackmailing practically everyone in the community, so they have a lot of suspects. One man, a friend of Barnaby's, has been accused of inappropriate behavior toward young women in a home he ran; another is a pub owner who faked a tax return; and a couple who takes weekend trips to the sea and may be up to something.
I found Barnaby's and Jones' repartee very amusing, and Jones was especially funny. "You know," he tells one suspect. "I envy my boss. He always puts people at ease when he interviews them. What was Martin Barrett blackmailing you about?" There are some fun characters as well, including a cleaning woman whose husband is questioned. He doesn't give honest answers; every time he lies, his wife tells the detectives the truth.
Very good mystery with a slight twist at the end. Entertaining.
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- Jun 5, 2015
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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