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A feature film adaptation of the first book is in pre-production from Creator/AmblinEntertainment, with Creator/StevenSpielberg producing and Creator/ChrisColumbus directing.directing and writing. The cast will include Creator/HelenMirren as Elizabeth, Creator/PierceBrosnan as Ron and Creator/BenKingsley as Ibrahim. Joyce has yet to be cast.
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A feature film adaptation of the first book is in pre-production from Creator/AmblinEntertainment, with Creator/StevenSpielberg producing and Creator/ChrisColumbus directing. The cast will include Creator/HelenMirren as Elizabeth, Creator/PierceBrosnan as Ron and Creator/BenKingsley as Ibrahim. Joyce has yet to be cast.
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* NotSoOmnipotentCouncilOfBickering: The various committees which actually run Cooper's Chase day-to-day. Even hardened crooks know better than to cross the Parking Committee!
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* NonIndicativeName: The Murder Club is listed on the village recreation schedule as “Japanese Opera Discussion” to keep the curious away. But Ron showed up initially because he didn’t believe it and wanted to know what was really going on.
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''The Thursday Murder Club'' is a series of mystery novels by Creator/RichardOsman.
Set in a high-end retirement community in Kent, the novels revolve around the exploits of the titular club and its four members:
* Elizabeth Best -- a retired intelligence officer
* Joyce Meadowcroft -- a retired nurse
* Ron Ritchie -- a retired trade unionist
* Ibrahim Arif -- a retired psychiatrist
Joining them in their adventures are DCI Chris Hudson and PC Donna de Freitas of the local constabulary and Bogdan, a Polish man who is much more than he appears.
[[folder:Novels in the series]]
* ''The Thursday Murder Club'' (2020)
* ''The Man Who Died Twice'' (2021)
* ''The Bullet That Missed'' (2022)
* ''The Last Devil to Die'' (2023)
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In his postscript to ''The Last Devil to Die'', Osman announced the series would go on hiatus while he began a second detective series, but that he would return to the Thursday Murder Club at some unstated point.
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To their surprise, they become involved in solving a recent murder when property developer, Ian Ventham, is killed right on Coopers Chase's grounds. This murder leads the four to meet Detective Chief Inspector Chris Hudson, Police Constable Donna de Freitas and Bogdan. Alongside these three people, the Thursday Murder Club help to track down Ventham's murderer and, fortunately or unfortunately, his won't be the last.
''The Thursday Murder Club'' is a series of mystery novels by
Set in a high-end retirement community in Kent, the novels revolve around the exploits of the titular club and its four members:
* Elizabeth Best -- a retired intelligence officer
* Joyce Meadowcroft -- a retired nurse
* Ron Ritchie -- a retired trade unionist
* Ibrahim Arif -- a retired psychiatrist
Joining them in
The series includes the
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# ''The Thursday Murder Club'' (2020)
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** Connie Johnson, Fairhaven's drug kingpin, is a maestro at remaining behind the scenes as well. Even after her arrest and incarceration, she remains a major player in the underworld, and in ''The Last Devil to Die'' [[spoiler:she orchestrates two of the book's murders, which not even the Club discovers]].
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In his postscript to ''The Last Devil to Die'', Osman announced the series would go on hiatus while he began a second detective series, but that he would return to the Thursday Murder Club at some unstated point.
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* TokenMinority: Ibrahim is the only non-white member of the Thursday Murder Club.
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* ExpansionPackPast: Elizabeth was TheSpymaster during the Cold War and has worked all over the world, knows people everywhere, and is owed favours by them all.
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* TheDeadGuyDidIt: In ''The Thursday Murder Club''. [[spoiler:Feigned by Penny's husband, Alex, who commits suicide after (falsely) confessing to the crime. Penny isn't actually dead at the beginning of the novel, but she's in a coma following a stroke. It's revealed that she murdered an abusive boyfriend and murderer whose death The Thursday Murder Club are trying to solve.]]
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* ExactilyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Like the name implies, the Thursday Murder Club is a club that gets together to discuss murders on Thursdays.
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* ExactilyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Like the name implies, the Thursday Murder Club is a club that gets together to discuss murders on Thursdays.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first book, Ian Ventham illegally parks in the last handicap spot because it's convenient, refuses to pay 15p extra for Fairtrade coffee, tries to reduce a £4,000 debt by complaining about Bogdan's "discolored" swimming pool grouting job[[note]]which is actually a filter on the photos[[/note]], fails, doesn't feel the ''slightest'' bit of guilt or embarrassment about it, says he'll pay £3,000, and ''actually'' pays £2,800. Then he goes back to his car sees someone who actually ''needs'' the handicapped spot is miffed at him, and can't understand why. After all, [[LackOfEmpathy he was there first]]. [[note]]If this wasn't obviously sociopathic enough, later narration explicitly says he ''never'' understands why people get upset with him.[[/note]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first book, Ian Ventham illegally parks his [[VehicleBasedCharacterization Range Rover]][[note]]Which are rather expensive cars, for those unfamiliar.[[/note]] in the last handicap spot because it's convenient, refuses to pay 15p extra for Fairtrade coffee, tries to reduce a £4,000 debt by complaining about Bogdan's "discolored" swimming pool grouting job[[note]]which is actually a filter on the photos[[/note]], fails, doesn't feel the ''slightest'' bit of guilt or embarrassment about it, says he'll pay £3,000, and ''actually'' pays £2,800. Then he goes back to his car car, sees someone who actually ''needs'' the handicapped spot is miffed at him, and can't understand why. After all, [[LackOfEmpathy he was there first]]. [[note]]If this wasn't obviously sociopathic enough, later narration explicitly says he ''never'' understands why people get upset with him.[[/note]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first book, Ian Ventham illegally parks in the last handicap spot because it's convenient, refuses to pay 15p extra for Fairtrade coffee, tries to reduce a £4,000 debt by complaining about Bogdan's "discolored" swimming pool grouting job[[note]]which is actually a filter on the photos[[/note]], fails, doesn't feel the ''slightest'' bit of guilt or embarrassment about it, says he'll pay £3,000, and ''actually'' pays £2,800. Then he goes back to his car sees someone who actually ''needs'' the handicapped spot is miffed at him, and can't understand why. After all, [[LackOfEmpathy he was there first]]. [[note]If this wasn't obviously sociopathic enough, later narration explicitly says he ''never'' understands why people get upset with him.[[/note]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first book, Ian Ventham illegally parks in the last handicap spot because it's convenient, refuses to pay 15p extra for Fairtrade coffee, tries to reduce a £4,000 debt by complaining about Bogdan's "discolored" swimming pool grouting job[[note]]which is actually a filter on the photos[[/note]], fails, doesn't feel the ''slightest'' bit of guilt or embarrassment about it, says he'll pay £3,000, and ''actually'' pays £2,800. Then he goes back to his car sees someone who actually ''needs'' the handicapped spot is miffed at him, and can't understand why. After all, [[LackOfEmpathy he was there first]]. [[note]If [[note]]If this wasn't obviously sociopathic enough, later narration explicitly says he ''never'' understands why people get upset with him.[[/note]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first book, Ian Ventham illegally parks in the last handicap spot because it's convenient, refuses to pay 15p extra for Fairtrade coffee, tries to reduce a £4,000 debt by complaining about Bogdan's "discolored" swimming pool grouting job[[note]]which is actually a filter on the photos[[/note]], fails, doesn't feel the ''slightest'' bit of guilt or embarrassment about it, says he'll pay £3,000, and ''actually'' pays £2,800. Then he goes back to his car sees someone who actually ''needs'' the handicapped spot is miffed at him, and can't understand why. After all, [[LackOfEmpathy he was there first]]. [[note]If this wasn't obviously sociopathic enough, later narration explicitly says he ''never'' understands why people get upset with him.[[/note]]
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* ScatterebrainedSenior: Played for drama. Stephen, Elizabeth's husband, suffers from dementia and is slowly losing lucidity. A sign that his decline is truly taking hold is when he struggles to call up his formidable chess skills while playing against Bogdan.
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* HiddenDepths: Bogdan is introduced as a labourer who'd prefer to keep his nose out of other people's business. He's gradually revealed to be an expert chess player, knows much more about what's happening than he lets on, and has connections within Kent's underworld.
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: The PlotTriggeringDeath in the first novel is that of a jerkass property develop while the second novel is kicked off by the death of a womanizing cad.
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* AmateurSleuth: No member of the Thursday Murder Club is a trained criminal investigator, but this doesn't stop them from digging into cases.
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* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: Two, in this case, in the form of Elizabeth and Joyce.
* LittleOldLadyInvestigates: Two, in this case, in the form of Elizabeth and Joyce.
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* TheChessmaster: As the mysteries develop, develop and the lists of suspects start forming, Elizabeth is the one who begins pulling the strings to bring everyone together and expose the culprit without anyone else realising what she's doing until it's too late.
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''The Thursday Murder Club'' is a series of mystery novels by Creator/RichardOsman.
Set in a high-end retirement community in Kent, the novels revolve around the exploits of the titular club and its four members:
* Elizabeth Best - a retired intelligence officer
* Joyce Meadowcroft - a retired nurse
* Ron Ritchie - a retired trade unionist
* Ibrahim Arif - a retired psychiatrist
Joining them in their adventures are DCI Chris Hudson and PC Donna de Freitas of the local constabulary and Bogdan, a Polish man who is
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* ''The Thursday Murder Club
* ''The Man Who Died Twice
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* TheChessmaster: As the mysteries develop,
* FriendOnTheForce: Chris and Donna
* TheNarrator: Joyce's journal entries provide a first-person perspective on the plot at key points in the novels.
* RetiredBadass:
** Elizabeth was a spy during the Cold War and occasionally thinks back on times when she had to engage in gun battles with Soviets and barely survived shelling while operating deep behind the Iron Curtain.
** Ron used to be a union organizer on the front lines during the years labour disputes in Great Britain were long and violent.
Set in a high-end retirement community in Kent, the novels revolve around the exploits of the titular club and its four members:
* Elizabeth Best - a retired intelligence officer
* Joyce Meadowcroft - a retired nurse
* Ron Ritchie - a retired trade unionist
* Ibrahim Arif - a retired psychiatrist
Joining them in their adventures are DCI Chris Hudson and PC Donna de Freitas of the local constabulary and Bogdan, a Polish man who is
[[folder:Novels in the series]]
* ''The Thursday Murder Club
* ''The Man Who Died Twice
[[/folder]]
!!The novels provide examples of:
* TheChessmaster: As the mysteries develop,
* FriendOnTheForce: Chris and Donna
* TheNarrator: Joyce's journal entries provide a first-person perspective on the plot at key points in the novels.
* RetiredBadass:
** Elizabeth was a spy during the Cold War and occasionally thinks back on times when she had to engage in gun battles with Soviets and barely survived shelling while operating deep behind the Iron Curtain.
** Ron used to be a union organizer on the front lines during the years labour disputes in Great Britain were long and violent.
