- A cat burglar named "The Creeper" is breaking into the estates of Causton, and an alcoholic writer threatening a "tell-all" book about his friends turns up dead.
- DCI Barnaby finds himself in charge of investigating The Creeper, a man who has been entering peoples homes in the dead of night, after the Chief Constable becomes the latest victim. It all becomes more serious when after one of the burglaries, a man is found dead in his bed. The dead man is David Roper, a ghostwriter by profession who was staying with the Chettam family. They had spent the previous evening at the home of Jack Filby who now owned the Chettham estate, forcing the family to live in the dower house. Filby and Roper had a very loud argument after dinner with Roper, a reformed alcoholic, storming out of the house with a bottle of brandy in hand. He made it back to the dower house and was put to bed. The mystery grows when a second attendee at the same dinner is murdered and the Creeper visits the Barnabys in the dead of night, not to steal anything but to leave behind two clues. The discovery of a Chettham family secret, the second death and a bit of DNA testing not only leads to the identity of the killers but to the identity of the Creeper.—garykmcd
- Whilst an audacious cat burglar nicknamed the Creeper is preying on the wealthy of Midsomer, including the chief constable, the once aristocratic but now impoverished Chettham family celebrate the coming of age of young Freddy Chettham. It is no secret that Jack Filby, a college contemporary of William Chettham and his wife Isobel, fathered the boy as William was impotent but now writer David Roper, who was also a student along with the trio, announces his intention to write a book about their early lives, which will discredit the family. After Roper and another victim are killed Barnaby gets unexpected help in solving the murders from,of all people, the Creeper.—don @ minifie-1
- Barnaby has to take over from Ben the seemingly pointless routine task to follow up the nocturnal burglaries, so far without physical victim or witness, in rich homes of the 'Creeper' when chief constable Richard Lovell becomes his latest victim. The detectives are actually interested when the next strike proves atypically fatal by tranquilizer OD for alcoholic biographer David Roper, who was staying with broke earl William Chettham, his dragon mother Elizabeth and wife Isobel and their golden boy son Freddie, whose coming of age was being celebrated in the family's former estate, now owned by their employer, industrialist Jack Filby, Freddie's biological father and close with his wife Martha, who has an affair with butler Rupert, and daughter Tallis. Barnaby gets anonymous tips delivered by the Creeper and digs in the families' past since college before making an arrangement with one criminal, the other having struck again.—KGF Vissers
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