2nd of the series with Dudgeon I've seen, the other one just last night. Library. Best way to get them. Other one - Echoes of the Dead - not as good as this one and this one is not very good either. Sped forward a few times 2, 3 minutes here and there - looking for the murders; only 2 seem to have happened, an unusually low number for MM. Don't care for Dudgeon's characterization - too pompous without any of the geniality of Nettles. I miss him and Jane Wymark, even though they never, ever gave her enough to do. I like Hughes but I don't remember him playing it so doltish. The ending was good, however; but they could do without the expositions. Don't care much to have it all explained in summary - it's something that should evolve, the facts get to be known or intimated as the story goes along, not have it all wrapped up by way of explanation. Hope Samantha Bond gets to do some other kind of character sometime - she's wrung this one out to dry too many times. Nettles is nicely retired now and perhaps Midsomer should retire as well.
Review of Death in the Slow Lane
