Death in Disguise

Death in Disguise is a crime novel by Caroline Graham, the third in her popular Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the successful ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

Plot summary

In a country manor house currently owned by a New Age cult of mystics, the mysterious death of member William Carter stirs all the local gossips into a frenzy of speculation. However, the rumours of sinister goings on are confirmed when the so-called Master of the Lodge also dies, after somebody throws a knife his way during a psychic regression.

Meanwhile, untrustworthy financier Guy Gamelin tries reconciling with his estranged, cultist daughter Sylvia, now called Suhami, and Chief Inspector Barnaby finds himself lost amidst a labyrinthine puzzle of deception, evil and pseudo-supernatural forces...

Publication history

• United Kingdom: 1992, Headline, London, 1992, Hardback, 374 p., ISBN 0747206082.
• United States: 1993, Morrow, New York City, 1993, Hardback, 333 p., ISBN 0688099858.

Television adaptation

The novel was adapted into the fifth episode of Midsomer Murders starring (alongside regulars John Nettles and Daniel Casey) Judy Cornwell, Miles Anderson, Charles Kay and Geoffrey Beevers.