Brought to Book

WHERE would we be without amateur detectives? In a right old mess, that’s where.

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Killers would be free to kill again and again, forever outsmarting the police.

No, amateur detectives from crime-solving vicars to meddling old biddies with a knack for spotting wrong ‘uns are a godsend to our hard-pressed plod. On telly at least.

And here's yet another, played by Mark Gatiss, this fine new show's creator in this case a bookseller in postwar London.