A trans-exclusionary radical feminist is found shot six times by a man on the run. Suspicion falls on South Horton’s duck-call society, angry that the decline of the red squirrel population from squirrel pox might threaten the town’s largely potpourri-based economy.

Dave, a pigeon enthusiast, is found bled to death from twin puncture wounds in the neck from a carving fork. Suspicion falls on Ford Florey’s chapter of the Ayn Rand society, angry that massive union mobilisation might threaten a rare plant found on the cricket pitch.

A corduroy-wearing academic is found quilted to death. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Abbas’s manager of a local tiger sanctuary, angry that lewd messages daubed in pigs blood inside a Tory peer’s house might threaten 16 more murders.