The charms of The Thursday Murder Club, Netflix’s adaptation of Richard Osman’s 2020 novel, are slender but sturdy. A group of three not-so-old folks—the term senior citizens is far too stuffy for them—meet every Thursday in the common room of Coopers Chase, a cozy-luxe retirement village, to tackle unsolved crimes. As they ponder the mystery of a young woman’s grisly 1973 death-by-stabbing, they’re sidetracked by a murder in their own midst: One of the Coopers Chase landlords, a man with thuggish business connections, is found dead. Delighted to have fresh, local material to work with, the stalwart group set out to uncover who did it, and why. The suspects include a greasy ne-er-do-well with a financial interest in Cooper’s Chase, a menacing gangster whom everyone had presumed dead, a

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