Bookmark this!: Mark Gatiss on Bookish and creating his own TV sleuth
Mark Gatiss has delighted in detective fiction since childhood, going on to co-create Sherlock with Steven Moffat and pen episodes of the David Suchet Poirot. Now he has his own crime-solver to explore: antiquarian bookshop owner Gabriel Book.
In a clear case of nominative determinism, Book’s bookshop is called “Book’s”, and from there he solves crimes largely through an encyclopaedic knowledge harvested from… books.