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Title: Blue Herrings
First broadcast: 22nd of January 2000

Cast:
Cully Barnaby...................Laura Howard
Joyce Barnaby..................Jane Wymark
Tom Barnaby....................John Nettles
Alice Bly......................Phyllis Calvert Gavin Troy........................Daniel Casey

Location(s):
Aspern Tallow

Summary:
At the Lawnside Residential Nursing Home for the Elderly in Aspern Tallow, Alice Bly - Barnaby's aunt - informs her nephew that strange deaths are occuring at the residence. She claims to have hear footsteps in the middle of the night, and a stranger sneaking about the premises...

Solution

Muriel Harrap and Madge Fielding both died of natural causes, even though foul play was suspected first.

The murderer of Celia Armstrong is her niece, Pru Bennett. Celia was terminally ill and suffering greatly, so Pru decided to release her from her suffering and smothered her with a pillow.