I try to watch the episodes of New Tricks, the British police tv series based on UCOS the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad staffed primarily by ex-police officers.
And particularly enjoyed the latest episode 'It smells like books': Brian finds the Library card of a cold case victim - a Dr Richard Symes, leading him and the team to re-investigate the death of the professor who died after falling from the roof of the college library building 3 years previously. Symes' younger widow, an antiquarian book dealer, believes the Principal (who has closed the college library to convert it into more profitable student accommodation, as students can buy books from the college bookshop) drove her husband to suicide following a conflict over teaching methods.
But as usual there are other undercurrents to the story which climaxes in the often dreamed scenario of trapping someone in a motorised compactus unit and turning the screws!
Hints of humour, and lots of scenes amid classic and modern library shelves & catalogues.
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