If you ask Helen Mirren if she'd be a good real-life crime solver, her answer would be an unequivocal yes. And it's all because of NBC 's Dateline . "Like millions of other women, I'm sort of mesmerized and fascinated by Dateline . These extraordinary moments when ordinary people become demonic." And now she's putting this well-honed eye for crime to good use in her new Netflix film The Thursday Murder Club, the film adaptation of Richard Osman's beloved book series.

"I was as rabid as anyone else. I absolutely loved the books," Mirren tells Newsweek about the series. "It's extraordinary when you think of all the murder mystery books that have been written, to find a new way of looking at an old tradition, an old trope, and to reinvent it. It's very clever. That's what Richard

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