Murder at Moorsey Manor (2014)

After being wowed by the previous story, I had a renewed enthusiasm about the remainder of this series. This penultimate adventure is a whodunit which isn’t something that I was expecting from this adventure. This release is written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris who were behind the Sacrifyers series and it’s perhaps easy to tell. Like the first story, there is more than a subtle sprinkling of Holmes and Watson as Jago and Litefoot arrive at Moorsey Manor where everyone has been summoned by Moriaty and are dressed like Sherlock Holmes. The story starts off in a slightly light hearted story but soon turns very dark and I quite like that because it’s something that this range does quite well and after a while people start to be bumped off.

I like the setting because it has a sort of base under siege vibe to it whilst feeling like a murder mystery adventure. The sort of thing Agatha Christie would have written but it’s the setting of what I am imagining to be a lovely house is what sells this story and credit should go to Howard Carter who has done a great job in this and the other two stories to create the perfect atmosphere for the story to do its job.

The performances were all very good with Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter being at the top of their game.  The supporting cast were all very good and they all good in their respected roles and they all sounded like they had just come out of a Miss Marple or a Poirot story.

Being that it’s the penultimate adventure, it ends on a cliffhanger which means that the final adventure is going to be epic and it was one that I didn’t see coming but it was quick and it did the job perfectly and it’s a great ending to the story. I thought that whilst this adventure wasn’t as good as ‘The Night of 1000 stars’, it was still an enjoyable adventure and this series continues to be a highly enjoyable one.