Imet the news that Richard Osman’s 2020 mystery novel “The Thursday Murder Club” would be adapted for the screen with a spark of glee, as happens when something you love is noticed by the wider world. That the wider world had already taken notice — more than 10 million copies of the book have been sold — doesn’t make it seem any less my property. Wondering whether it would be any good could wait.

And here we are. Arriving Thursday on Netflix, the film version — not the miniseries some hoped for — offers a more or less straight plow through the book, though streamlined, simplified and softened. It has the advantage of a cast so appropriate it almost feels that Osman wrote the characters to accommodate them, and the disadvantage of having to discharge its complicated narrative and various h

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