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 RW> I felt the same way, the character as portrayed by Jacoby just didn't
 RW> gibe with Cadfael in the books. We both probably would have enjoyed the
 RW> TV series better if we hadn't read the books.  My favorites of the PBS
Could be--I had read at least ten of the novels prior to seeing it on TV, so
I had already formed "my image" of Brother Cadfael when I saw it.
 RW> Mystery! shows are the Morse episodes. John Thaw captures the essence
 RW> of Morse as Colin Dexter seems to have written him.
Yeah, Thaw does a superb job, although the writing recently has
weakened, about the time when the shows stopped being based on Dexter's
novels and started being based on "characters created by Colin Dexter."
I also like the characterizations of PD James Inspector Daiglaish (sp) and
Christie's Miss Marpel.  I would never watch those old Miss Marpel movies
featuring M. Rutherford--at least I think that's who she was.
 RW> It may be a parody, but having seen a bit of our local and some US
 RW> Star Trek 'beam-ins' on the TV, it doesn't seem that much over done of
 RW> the actual conventions.
Heh, some of the heat generated led me to suspect it was hitting a bit too
close to home.  Some even claimed to have recognized some of her characters.
 RW> I've read a number of Josephine Tey's books over the years, and always
 RW> like them. 'Brat Farrar' and 'The Franchise Affair' rate pretty high
 RW> with me, and my latest read 'The Man in the Queue' is also enjoyable.
 RW> Despite having been written over 40 years ago, I don't find them that
 RW> dated. 'The Man in the Queue' reminds me of Christie's 'The Mirror
 RW> Cracked' but that didn't distract from the story for me.
Either I've read that one or one with a similar title.  Does it open with a
man murdered while standing in a queue waiting to get a ticket?
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