Wealthy Jack of all trades Harold Carobleat dies, but at the reading of the will, his wife Helen learns that her husband had left his fortune to his next door neighbour Marcus Gwill, not her, soon after the reading, he is found dead.
I think this is perhaps the most serious of The Flaxborough stories, this one doesn't have any of the humour of lighter moments, this is quite a serious, straight up mystery.
If you simply enjoy a good whodunnit, no action, no unfathomable complexity, there is a lot here to enjoy.
There's definitely something deep and sinister going on, but at this stage I don't quite know what, is there some sort of underhand swindle going on amongst The legal and funeral teams?
There is a real richness to every single character, every one of them has a purpose, nobody feels like a bit player, they all have a reason for being there.
Caroline Blakiston plays the raven haired widow wonderfully, she somehow comes across as 'new money,' Peter Sallis is also great as the mild mannered, but quietly sinister Rodney Gloss, he'd have been very busy with Summer Wine, which in 77 was arguably at the height of its popularity.
8/10.
