A stranger, Gordon Ferrar, arrives at Arlington Grange with an injury, but very soon is suffering no more.

A psychic medium, Miss Terry, is summoned to Arlington Grange to rid it of evil spirits. She is perhaps not quite the real thing, and one of the regulars quickly sends her on a permanent visit to the Other Side.

Who killed Max Gold? And was it with a mallet, a stocking, an arrow, a fossil, a meat cleaver, or a poker?

Sister Concepta, a nun visiting the Grange, goes to meet her maker. Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of motives on hand for killing the sister in god - with a spear, a shotgun, a cake knife, a parasol, a paperweight, or, just conceivably, a corkscrew.

This week's murder victim is David Stringer, a visiting author who was a little too interested in Arlington Grange and its inhabitants.

Despite arriving on his cue, Clive Moxton becomes the late Clive Moxton.

Jake Swithin visits the Grange and falls foul of all the usual suspects. This week's weapons are: walking stick, dagger, lady's scarf, steak hammer, wine-bottle and sword.

Sir Nigel Hussey magnificently lives up to his name, but expires less elegantly. The possible weapons lying around the house are: flame thrower, G-string, golf club, poisonous snake, crossbow and automatic pistol.

Candice Costello quickly becomes one of the show's most beautiful murder victims to date. But was she done in with a fire poker, a battery charger, a pair of scissors, a meat cleaver, an ice-pick or a poisoned fountain pen? And which of several plausible motives caused someone to snap?

Marjorie Hunt, an old friend of Mrs White, comes to stay at the Grange. Unfortunately for her, she is a psychic and unwisely gives a Tarot card reading for some of the regulars on the evening of her arrival... Miss Scarlett has damaged her car that afternoon, and Mrs Hunt knows all about it - and maybe more. Green is having an affair with a married woman in the village. Mrs Peacock is preparing to burn down the Grange for the insurance money. Mustard feels guilty about a little matter of some missing army property. Plum's latest invention has got him into hot water. And Mrs White has a dark secret. All too predictably, Mrs Hunt does not live to see the next morning.

After Mrs White inherits a small fortune, all the Grange's inhabitants start treating her rather differently. Then city slicker Terence Radcliffe persuades her to put all her money into a dud deal.Weapons: garden hoe, corkscrew, shotgun, sculpture, carving knife and decanter-stopper.

Journalist Daniel Peacock arrives at the Grange to write a book about a former royal resident, and several people still around feel threatened and are determined to stop him... so Daniel's death comes as no surprise. But who killed him, and was it with a dagger, a cheese-wire, a snooker triangle, a broken glass, a kitchen knife or a microphone?