Bookish: Delightful Period Detective Drama From Mark Gatiss

Bookish: delightful period detective drama from Mark Gatiss

By this stage, you may feel you've had enough of "cosy crime", said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, a genre that has been rather overdone lately.But this six-part series, set in 1946, is a standout pleasure (on U&Alibi). Mark Gatiss – who created and co-wrote the series – stars as Gabriel Book, an antiquarian bookseller with brilliant crime-solving abilities. He has performed some heroic but "mysterious" service during the War, and carries a letter…

Mark Gatiss Talks New U&alibi Show Bookish To Yahoo! News

Turning A New Page In Detective Fiction Bookish is a new detective show starring Mark Gatiss on U&Alibi and here’s a few snippets from Gatiss talking to Yahoo! News about it… Bookish is the culmination of his love of crime stories: “I’m a great student of the genre. I’ve always loved murder mysteries, obviously Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Miss Marple, but also a lot of the others I read as a teenager — Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham, and lo…