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8.5/10 TV Publisher Century Pages 272 Page count 272 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country England Publication date 1989 Originally published 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Chief Inspector Barnaby series Similar Death in Disguise, Faithful unto Death, Written in Blood, The Killings at Badger's, A Place of Safety | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death of a Hollow Man is a work of detective fiction by Caroline Graham, the second in her Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the successful ITV drama Midsomer Murders.
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Plot summary
While attending an amateur production of Amadeus to watch his wife, Joyce's performance, Chief Inspector Barnaby witnesses the gruesome, all-too realistic murder of an actor on stage, after the tape applied to blunt the razor blade used to slit his character's throat is removed, revealing the lethal blade.
As he investigates the shocking crime, Barnaby unearths a whole host of dark passions and resentments nestling beneath the surviving cast's genial facade.
Publication history
T.V adaptation
The novel was adapted into the fourth episode of season one of Midsomer Murders, starring (alongside regulars John Nettles and Daniel Casey) Bernard Hepton, Debra Stephenson, Janine Duvitski, Angela Pleasence, Nicholas Le Prevost and John Cater.