Charles Kay

DCI Barnaby needs all his wits about him as he investigates a string of deaths at a local New Age commune.

Professor Presbury refuses to believe his daughter's story about a nightmarish intruder who appears at her window. Sherlock Holmes is persuaded by her fiancé, Bennett, to investigate, and although on the surface the matter appears to be trivial, the theft of several monkeys from the zoo and professor Presbury's erratic behaviour leads Holmes to believe that there is a real danger!

When nationally renowned doctor Elliot Strange is discovered dead inside a locked room, impaled on a 12th-century Samurai blade, the authorities are understandably baffled.