On 2006-07-31, Chris McGonnell > wrote:

> Yep. "A Christmas Carol" is one cited as an early tale. It's longer
> than it should be because Dickens was being paid by the word.

Just don't let Dan Brown hear about that scheme. Never mind, it's too
late.


> I think murder on television died with Angela Lansbury.

Without doing any "research" (i.e. googling) I can think of a number
of fairly recent UKian murder drama series: "Foyle's War", "Midsomer
Murders", "A Touch of Frost", "Jonathan Creek" (not always murder).

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