What is this series about?

The year is 1949 and is set in a small, rural community named Milton-on-Hyde. In this lavish village lies a small beach surrounded by clifftops, atop a big house named Waddington Hall. Presently down the road of this house lies the main village body, a quaint couple of streets containing a variety of neat cottages, bungalows and the odd bigger house. There is also the town center, another little affair compromising of only a few shops and stores. It is here in this apparantly pleasant life, that murder and mystery stalk continously. The inhabitants and shady and secretive, crimes are frequent and frightening and it is up to Chief Inspector Pry and his partner Constable Chart, and of course you, to solve them.