Whilst temperance campaigners,led by fervent,ex-alcoholic parson Norman Grigor,protest against the Midsomer Abbas May Festival,the body of Peter Slim,a revenue inspector investigating illicit stills,is found dumped in a cider vat. The murder weapon,an apple tree harvester which shook him to death,belongs to boozy cider mill owner Anthony Devereux, a man with something to hide t...