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the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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Currently listening to the audiobook of “Murder Must Advertise” and I’m not very far in to it (so obviously don’t know how it will turn out) and even though it’s obviously part of the wider Peter Wimsey series, it has just struck me that a murder mystery but shot as a workplace mockumentary (like the Thick of It or the Office) would probably have gone down a storm in the noughties.

#Pam in Payroll stepping over the dead body without realising because she's too busy chatting about her weekend off with Sandra in HR #Coffee machine's broken because someone's wedged the murder weapon in it and this has caused Anthony the junior team leader to finally snap #Tom the intern unwittingly shredding evidence because why on earth would this fresh-faced new starter question his boss #Security think they're Big Cool Detectives just because a police officer said three things to them going around trying to interview people #Despite the fact that they have absolutely no authority and everybody (except Tom the Intern) knows this and ignores them #Turns out it wasn't even murder it was just that Site Maintenance were trying to do the work of ten people and left tools lying around #Or maybe someone was poisoned in the workplace canteen and Debbie the dinner lady is Offended that someone might spike her food #I'm not the biggest mockumentary fan myself- the Thick of It being the exception- but I do feel like that's almost #what Murder Must Advertise feels like if mockumentaries were all the rage in the 1930s rather than the early 21st century #reading log

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