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00:00Well?
00:11Well?
00:13I know that look. You're onto something.
00:17Nonsense. Merely the happy look of a contented man.
00:20I have my lovely wife, my lovely shop, my lovely dog.
00:24What more could a man ask for?
00:26Broad.
00:27Three things, then.
00:29Mr. Harcup collected Chinese jade figures of exceptional quality.
00:34But dust is eloquent, as someone once said.
00:37Dust doesn't lie.
00:39One of the figures has been replaced with a bit of cheap trash, a chess piece.
00:43But the larger outline remains clear.
00:46Mrs. Dredge hasn't cleaned in a while, despite what she said.
00:50Secondly, Mr. Harcup has a small lump on the back of his head.
00:54Not caused by him falling, I don't think.
00:57Or probably a blow with a blunt instrument.
01:00A blunt instrument that didn't break the skin.
01:02And yet there is blood on the back of Mr. Harcup's scalp.
01:06Thirdly...
01:07Yes?
01:08Darkly I listen, and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death.
01:14Called him soft names in many amused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath.
01:21Pardon?
01:22Why would a chemist, with every known gentle poison in the shop, choose to kill himself with something as horrible as prussic acid?
01:33Hm.
01:34Well, look.
01:35There you are then.
01:36Yes, Trotty.
01:37There we are.
01:38It's murder.
01:39It's murder.
01:40It's murder.
01:41It's murder.
01:46It's murder.
01:47It's murder.
01:53It's murder.
01:54Oh, you shouldn't.
01:55Look.
01:56Oh, you don't.
01:57Look.
01:58It's murder.
01:58It's murder.
01:59You're the"...
02:00Voltous heißt.
02:01In the Theny Zi.
02:02All right.
02:03That's Ray Hu.
02:04Look!
02:05Mrs. Book.
02:06Oh, my dear!
02:07Look, wow!
02:08This is Book.
02:09Oh!
02:10Look!
02:11Look!
02:12B
02:12Heate!
02:13He...
02:15Look.
02:16Mrs. Book...
02:17Be careful!
02:18Be careful.
02:20Look...
02:21Let's go.
02:51Let's go.
03:21Good morning.
03:25How can I help?
03:26Oh, well, I'm...
03:27I'm after a book.
03:29You are very much in the right place.
03:32What do you think, young man?
03:33What would suit the lady best?
03:34Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James?
03:38Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?
03:41Oh.
03:42Well, I've read all her other ones.
03:44Me too, and what a smasher she is.
03:46But that would be a new book, Miss...
03:48Mrs Goodwin.
03:50Mrs Goodwin.
03:51Jean.
03:51Jean.
03:52We're not really going for those, do we?
03:56We should try foils.
03:58It's a bit of a trudge.
04:00My feet being what they are.
04:02I have the perfect alternative.
04:04One who was spinning romantic yarns when Miss Heyer was still in the cradle.
04:07Probably.
04:08Oh, well, if you think that...
04:10Shh.
04:10I mean, if you'd recommend...
04:11Shh.
04:12Beg your pardon?
04:13I'm sure.
04:14Sorry.
04:15Thinking.
04:15Ah!
04:15Ortsy.
04:27Never heard of him.
04:28Her.
04:29Baroness.
04:30Hungarian.
04:31The Scarlet Pimpernel.
04:32Oh, I've heard of that.
04:35French Revolution.
04:36It's a delight.
04:37You won't regret it.
04:39When you've finished, come back and I'll find you the sequel.
04:42Oh, that's very good of you.
04:44Well, what do I hear of you?
04:46Oh, let's call it a bob.
04:47Hang on.
04:48Feet.
04:49Feet, feet, feet.
04:51Ah.
04:53This is free.
04:57Oh, I couldn't possibly.
04:58Oh, it's nothing.
05:00But sending you off happily on the bus without further bunions is a price above rubies.
05:05Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
05:09Cheer to buy.
05:11Come on, woman.
05:14I'll never make any money like that, will I?
05:20Hey-ho.
05:21Now then, Jack.
05:23Excited to start the day?
05:24There's a whole world of learning in here.
05:27All human life.
05:29And some inhuman.
05:30Still got that coin.
05:32Well, oh, uh, yeah.
05:34Yeah, of course.
05:35Good.
05:35I don't mean to pry, Mr. Book, but, um, what exactly is it you do?
05:44I would have thought that was obvious.
05:46I sell books.
05:48Yeah, but that's not all, is it?
05:50Yesterday, out there, the bomb site.
05:54Chat with a charlady.
05:55Yes.
05:56Well, is that, like, your...
05:57Your hobby?
06:00I mean, the way you talk to those coppers, where they let you roam around that pit, are you, like, some sort of advisor to them or something?
06:07I mean, why should they listen to you?
06:09They frequently don't more fool them.
06:11I did the inspector a favour once, during the war.
06:16He hasn't forgotten.
06:17Also, I have a special letter.
06:19A letter from Churchill.
06:20Yeah, the cop has said that.
06:23A letter saying what?
06:27It's a chaotic world, Jack.
06:30I have a system.
06:32Sometimes people like me to give an opinion on things.
06:35Impose a little order.
06:36That's all.
06:37You can read all sorts of things.
06:39As well as books.
06:42This, this is your system?
06:46Yes.
06:48What's wrong with it?
06:50Well, they're not in any kind of order.
06:55Cataracts of denial.
06:58Diseases of the eye and their treatment.
07:01Cataracts, eye disease, logical.
07:03The guillotine, a practical guide, the life and death of Alfred Mutting's gent, coins of the realm.
07:12I mean, there's no system.
07:13There's no system at all.
07:14Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
07:16How best to explain.
07:18Alfred Mutting's was a career criminal.
07:21Very successful forger in his day, which was Queen Victoria's day.
07:24Extraordinary chap in his field.
07:25He was a coiner, a forger of coins.
07:27But his luck ran out of Paris and they chopped off his head, which is why all those books are clumped together, you see.
07:32Yeah, but that's...
07:35I mean, that's silly.
07:39Nevertheless.
07:40Well, I shall leave you to, uh, hold the fort.
08:04Slightly foxed.
08:05Says it all.
08:35Morning.
08:43Yeah, uh, can I help you?
08:45I've come to collect an order.
08:47Uh, right-o.
08:48Um, what's the name?
08:50Sheila Well Beloved.
08:57Hello.
08:59Jack.
09:00Yeah?
09:00I'm Nora.
09:02We've got lots to talk about.
09:05Thank you, Miss.
09:19Uh, again, very sorry for you.
09:21Can I go now?
09:22Well, if you wouldn't mind just answering a few questions.
09:24Ah!
09:25Um, would you just, just come with me, please, Miss Elizabeth?
09:29Hmm, fascinating.
09:31Where better to hide a tree?
09:33Than in a forest.
09:34And these markings.
09:37Indeed.
09:39Oh, look.
09:40Oh, hello.
09:41Just checking in on those skeletons with Dr. Calder here.
09:44Ah, yes.
09:45Any risk of infection?
09:47Quite safe on that, Count Inspector.
09:48However...
09:49Ah.
09:50Loose lips drop slips, as they say in the knicker trade.
09:53Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, would we?
09:55Surprise?
09:56Anyway, back to the case in hand.
09:59This is Miss Marula Harcup.
10:01Oh, my dear child.
10:03I'm so very sorry.
10:04A few questions, you said.
10:06Do you mind if I tag along?
10:14Oh, don't forget that blood test, will you?
10:16On its way.
10:17Sorry about that.
10:24There you go.
10:25Black lamb and grey falcon.
10:28Sounds interesting.
10:30Tough.
10:30Getting the hang of it?
10:38Slowly.
10:40So, who are you?
10:42Nora.
10:43I live across the road in the Turkish restaurant.
10:46Help out in the shop sometimes.
10:47So, um, do you know him well, then, Mr and Mrs Book?
10:52Yeah.
10:53And do you know about his little hobby?
10:57Bloody hell, yes.
10:58It's all I think about.
11:01Isn't all that, I mean...
11:04Isn't that...
11:06Unhealthy?
11:07I should think so.
11:09What do your mum and dad think?
11:11Don't have any.
11:14What do you mean?
11:14Well, it was the war, wasn't it?
11:19Everyone lost someone.
11:21I lost them.
11:24Sorry.
11:27What happened?
11:28So, how are you getting on anyway with the books?
11:33Mr and Mrs?
11:36It's not quite what I expected.
11:39What is his Christian name, by the way?
11:42What do you think?
11:44Cookbook.
11:45Scrapbook.
11:46Mucky book.
11:48Gabriel.
11:49Ah.
11:51Like the angel?
11:53Archangel, I think you'll find.
11:56They're a dream.
11:57Both of them.
11:58Such sweethearts.
12:01So,
12:02what's the real story?
12:04I think I'm hard.
12:21I'm not sniffling, boo-hooing all over the shop.
12:26I mean, it's just not the way I'm made.
12:28So, there.
12:29Your father.
12:32I'm sorry that he's dead.
12:35Of course I am.
12:35He was my dad.
12:37In spite of everything.
12:38He didn't make it easy to, um, to love him, though.
12:46Can you think of any reason why he'd want to take his own life?
12:48None.
12:49No, he was nicely set up with a shop and...
12:51Well, Mum had left him a few bob when she died.
12:56You don't think your estrangement...
12:58No, nothing to do with that.
13:00He wasn't the type to get all emotional.
13:03Maybe that's where I get it from.
13:07I mean, he made it very clear that
13:08he didn't approve of, um,
13:12me and Mickey.
13:13But, um,
13:14he'd hardly have gone and killed himself in a fit of the glums about it.
13:17He just, he weren't the type, as I say.
13:19Tell us about Mickey.
13:24What's to say?
13:25He's my fella.
13:25How was his war?
13:31Why do you ask that?
13:33Well, we know how much our father appreciated the armed forces,
13:36always wore his metal ribbons with great pride.
13:38Yes, well...
13:39Mickey wasn't lucky.
13:40His eyes, they're not, they're not good.
13:44I say that's why he ended up with me.
13:47I mean,
13:47he wouldn't have been much good against Gerry with eyes like his.
13:52Dad didn't like that.
13:53Thought he was a shirker.
13:54Yeah. That was the start of it.
13:56What was the finish?
14:00Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving from him.
14:03Cash?
14:05Morphine.
14:08Mickey got up to some shady business during the war.
14:12Just stockings, cigarettes, small stuff.
14:15Dad had, um, just got it into his head that Mickey was bad.
14:18And he'd noticed Morphine had gone missing.
14:21Yes.
14:22Wouldn't speak to us.
14:25You've had a bit of news, haven't you?
14:26I mean, I thought a little one might be the thing that brung us back together.
14:37What's all this about?
14:38Why are you so interested in Mickey?
14:39If Dad has gone and topped himself.
14:43Stories?
14:50Detective stories.
14:52That's what I want to write.
14:54I've got so many ideas.
14:56It's such an exciting new world out there.
15:00Everything's all smashed up.
15:03The whole world.
15:05No one knows what to do anymore.
15:06Well, I do.
15:08The war turned everything upside down.
15:10Shook it up.
15:12That's great.
15:13It's now going back to how things used to be.
15:15Including murders.
15:16Including murders.
15:17Half the soldiers in Britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead Nazis.
15:23The country's a washroom.
15:25So?
15:26So, we only seem civilised in this country because we're not armed.
15:31Think of all that throbbing, suburban passion.
15:36Husbands having affairs with secretaries.
15:39Ladies having affairs with their chauffeurs.
15:42All those contested wheels and domestic rows.
15:46People used to kill each other by boiling down arsenic from their wallpaper.
15:51Now they just have to reach for a lugar.
15:54Pow, pow, pow!
16:03What did happen to your parents?
16:07You're supposed to be telling me your story.
16:12I'm an orphan too.
16:15I never knew my mum.
16:17I've got a picture of my dad.
16:21That's all.
16:21I'm sorry.
16:27It's alright.
16:31I should, um...
16:33Yeah.
16:34It was nice to meet you.
16:35It was an incendiary.
16:39What?
16:39An incendiary.
16:46Set the roof on fire in the blitz.
16:51Mum got me out and went back for Dad.
16:58Then the roof fell in.
16:59I just sat there in the garden looking at the house.
17:06Just felt sort of numb.
17:15The ARP warden found me.
17:18Then my uncle took me in.
17:20So, now I have to help him out with the restaurant.
17:27But you'd rather be.
17:31Much more exciting over here, innit?
17:34I gave up pleasure for Lent.
17:57I gave up Lent.
17:58Pleasure.
18:00Pleasure.
18:08Well.
18:10What's your answer?
18:12I told you before, I'm just a bookseller.
18:16I sell books again, like I did before the war.
18:18This would be for old time's sake.
18:26And we did help you find him.
18:30Very kind of you.
18:34How's all that working out?
18:36It's complicated.
18:39Well, yes, I imagine it is.
18:43Delicate.
18:44And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong.
18:50Now would we?
18:51Well, yes, I think it's a good one.
18:52Well, yes, I think it's a good one.
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19:36so what do we make of him hmm jack put him in the attic room like mrs rochester only slightly
20:01more butch has it ever occurred to you that you are such a bibliophile because of your name
20:07nominative determinism hmm i mean if you've been called butcher you might be slicing up choice
20:16cuts of meat flensing that's the word removing fat from a carcass wonderfully descriptive word
20:24flensing i shall endeavor to bring it back well i wish you joy with that yes you could be slipping
20:29me black market chops under the counter like mr well beloved much more useful than books these
20:35days i could have been an archer or a baker or a chandler speaking of which farewell my lovely
20:44oh you're going out again you're so sharp you'll cut yourself crime fiction american customer put in
20:50a request i know it's here somewhere i saw a lady in the lake recently anyway jack
20:56oh definite promise definite promise and he didn't try to flog that coin so jail hasn't made
21:04him a wrong gun for life touch wood
21:07and the uh other matter
21:14it's too soon to tell him
21:27What was so special about your book?
21:50Nothing really, it's just about some chaps at school playing cricket.
21:55And what do you think of Carol Darley?
21:57Wait, you've read Tim?
22:00Started it.
22:01When?
22:02After I saved it from the incinerator.
22:09Book, what's your name?
22:13Bajova.
22:16That's a funny name.
22:25Stratford Perry.
22:27But my friends call me Trotty.
22:31You're splendid.
22:32You owe me.
22:34I do.
22:37So when I get into trouble here, will you help me out?
22:41Let us make a solemn pact.
22:43Put your strong arms around me, Carol, and raise me a little.
22:59I can talk better so.
23:01Carol bowed his head without a word and kissed him.
23:09And thus, their friendship was sealed.
23:11Good night, Mrs. Book.
23:21Good night, Mr. Book.
23:23Good night, Mr. Book.
23:35The daughter, the spiv, the char, the warden.
23:43Who gave Harkup the ruddy poison?
23:50Who gave Harkup the ruddy poison?
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