Complete case catalogue
Search all 144 episodes.
Filter the full archive, keep endings sealed, open an individual case file or continue to the official ITVX programme page.
The Village Murder CasebookAn unofficial Midsomer Murders guideInteractive case index
Find tonight's mystery
Search 144 released cases by title, village, detective, theme or atmosphere.
144 cases found
S01 · E01Landmark
Badger's Drift · 1997
The Killings at Badger's Drift
An apparently natural death draws Barnaby into a village of immaculate gardens and very untidy secrets.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Elizabeth SpriggsIris Rainbird
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S01 · E02Classic
Midsomer Worthy · 1998
Written in Blood
A writers' circle welcomes a celebrated novelist, then discovers that literary ambition can be murderously personal.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S01 · E03Classic
Ferne Basset · 1998
Death of a Hollow Man
An amateur production of Amadeus gives Barnaby a cast full of motives and a fatal change of props.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Caroline Graham
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S01 · E04Dark
Morton Fendle · 1998
Faithful Unto Death
A craft-centre owner's wife disappears, leaving a suspicious ransom demand and a village eager to improve the story.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Douglas Watkinson
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S01 · E05Eccentric
Lodge of the Golden Windhorse · 1998
Death in Disguise
A death at a New Age commune brings Barnaby into a world of mysticism, money and carefully remade identities.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Douglas Watkinson
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S02 · E01Dark
Badger's Drift · 1999
Death's Shadow
A brutal death interrupts the Barnabys' anniversary plans and reopens a tragedy from three decades earlier.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Richard BriersReverend Stephen Wentworth
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S02 · E02Dark
Midsomer Worthy · 1999
Strangler's Wood
The death of a visiting model resembles a notorious unsolved case, but the local tobacco business supplies fresher motives.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Toby JonesDr Dan Peterson
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S02 · E03Classic
Fletcher's Cross · 1999
Dead Man's Eleven
A village cricket match continues around a body and a grand estate whose family history refuses to stay in the pavilion.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Toby JonesDr Dan Peterson
- Robert HardyRobert Cavendish
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S02 · E04Dark
Martyr Warren · 1999
Blood Will Out
The arrival of two travelling communities intensifies an old feud in Martyr Warren before a local magistrate is killed.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Douglas Watkinson
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S03 · E01Dark
Upper Marshwood · 1999
Death of a Stranger
A stranger's death after a fox hunt forces Barnaby to question a close-knit rural circle and a conveniently solved case.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Douglas Livingstone
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Toby JonesDr Dan Peterson
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S03 · E02Classic
Aspern Tallow · 2000
Blue Herrings
Barnaby's recuperating aunt suspects that deaths at her nursing home are more organised than natural causes suggest.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Hugh Whitemore
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S03 · E03Classic
Midsomer Mallow · 2000
Judgement Day
A Perfect Village competition arrives just as an outsider's death threatens to expose the imperfections under the bunting.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Anthony Horowitz
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Toby JonesDr Dan Peterson
- Orlando BloomPeter Drinkwater
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S03 · E04Eccentric
Aspern Tallow · 2000
Beyond the Grave
Damage to a Civil War portrait and a run of ghostly incidents lead Barnaby from a village museum to a present-day body in an old tomb.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Douglas Watkinson
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Prunella ScalesEleanor Bunsall
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E01Eccentric
Midsomer Deverell · 2000
Garden of Death
Plans for a memorial garden expose a feud between old money, new development and one exceptionally complicated family.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Christopher Russell
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E02Dark
Midsomer Magna · 2001
Destroying Angel
A hotel inheritance, a missing manager and some lethally expert mushroom knowledge produce an unusually patient reckoning.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- David Hoskins
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Samantha BondSuzanna Chambers
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E03Eccentric
Midsomer Parva · 2001
The Electric Vendetta
An electrocuted body in a crop circle brings UFO folklore, aristocratic families and wartime memories into the same inquiry.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Terry Hodgkinson
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Michael BertenshawDr Michael Rycroft
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E04Classic
Newton Magna · 2001
Who Killed Cock Robin?
A doctor's late-night collision and a body recovered from a well turn two missing men into one unusually tangled village case.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Jeremy Paul
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E05Dark
Goodman's Land · 2001
Dark Autumn
The murder of a postman places the village's correspondence, affairs and closely observed daily routines under scrutiny.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Peter J. Hammond
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S04 · E06Dark
Midsomer Malham · 2001
Tainted Fruit
A wealthy young woman's hostility leaves Barnaby with a crowded suspect list when she is killed using stolen barbiturates.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Peter J. Hammond
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S05 · E01Classic
Midsomer Market · 2002
Market for Murder
A genteel reading group is really an investment circle, and its members begin paying a much steeper price than expected.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Andrew Payne
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S05 · E02Dark
Midsomer Worthy · 2002
A Worm in the Bud
An apparent suicide in Setwale Wood points instead to a land dispute, two observant children and a concealed family story.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Michael Russell
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S05 · E03Eccentric
Midsomer Wellow · 2002
Ring Out Your Dead
The week before a bell-ringing competition becomes deadly when members of the village team are attacked in sequence.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Christopher Russell
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Hugh BonnevilleHugh Barton
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S05 · E04Dark
Devington · 2002
Murder on St Malley's Day
A prestigious school, a secret society and an annual sporting tradition produce a case steeped in privilege.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- Andrew Payne
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗S06 · E01Classic
Midsomer Malham · 2003
A Talent for Life
A formidable former society beauty discovers a body while fly-fishing and promptly becomes central to the case.
- Detective
- Tom Barnaby
- Partner
- Gavin Troy
- Writer
- David Hoskins
Cast on file
- John NettlesTom Barnaby
- Daniel CaseyGavin Troy
- Barry JacksonDr George Bullard
- Honor BlackmanIsobel Hewitt
Sealed finding
Read the full case file →Find on ITVX ↗Case selector
Leave the evening to chance.
The Killings at Badger's Drift
The feature-length case that established the entire Midsomer formula.
Open the suggestion →Location desk
The real county, plotted
Select a place to see its screen role, practical note and connected case files.
Oxfordshire
Wallingford
One of the principal doubles for Causton, with its Corn Exchange, riverside and civic streets appearing repeatedly.
Visitor note
A strong base for a self-guided day, with river walks, independent cafés and several recognisable public streets.
Connected case files
- Death of a Hollow Man
- Death's Shadow
- Strangler's Wood
- Death of a Stranger
- Blue Herrings
- Tainted Fruit
- Market for Murder
- Small Mercies
- The Sword of Guillaume
- Breaking the Chain
Published series-wide snapshot
A county with a worrying retention problem.
Published analysis counted 388 murders across the programme, averaging 2.8 per case. The numbers below are a cited series-wide snapshot; the searchable archive contains all 144 released cases through Series 25.
388reported murders
63accidental or natural deaths
22reported suicides
Most common methodBludgeoning · 69
Share of reported murders in the cited analysis
Five-question village examination
Would Barnaby trust your notes?
No account required, no score retained and—mercifully—no annual appraisal with the Chief Constable.
Question 1 of 5Score 0