It’s a Thursday. It’s lunchtime. And we are in the pub. There could be no more appropriate location to talk with Daniel Mays about his role in the screen adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestseller The Thursday Murder Club – a book that features more references to pub lunches per chapter than any piece of crime fiction in literary history.

Daniel Mays’ copy of the first book in Richard Osman’s hit series

The book is a phenomenon. It has sold 10 million copies worldwide, spawned three sequels (with another to follow next month) and copycats galore. These stories of septuagenarian sleuths are popular for a reason.

Osman can turn a phrase, he knows all the key ingredients for a compelling whodunnit and has created central characters that are smart, funny, quirky and believable – an odd qu

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