A Famous Author is murdered (he seems a bit of a shit). The way he gets annoyed when people call it 'The Magpie Murders' made me think of Q - 'No, it's not The Bodyguard, it's Bodyguard!' Editor Lesley Manville must find the missing last chapter of his last book. Meanwhile, in the book, a country squire is murdered... Offering good opportunities for characters to appear in both.
I kept thinking of The Singing Detective, with which it shares a similar structure. It was thoroughly enjoyable. Seems to reflect in the plot Conan Doyle's dislike for Sherlock Holmes.
We had attempted to watch a very rough-and-ready film from 1974, The Lords of Flatbush, with Sly Stallone and Henry Winkler, but it was very badly recorded and seemed to be in the Department of Clichés, so we abandoned ship. After the relative disappointment of Cry Macho we just couldn't be there.
With Tim McMullan (a Foyle's War alumni) as Atticus Pünd (not a German word), Conleth Hill (author), Pippa Heywood, Michael Maloney, Daniel Mays, Nathan Clarke, Harry Lawtey, Ian Lloyd Anderson.
Filmed in Ireland and Kersey in Suffolk.
Good opening credits animation by Huge Media:
Cattaneo made The Full Monty and Military Wives and episodes of The A Word and Rev.
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