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Ludwig’s David Mitchell Knows the Secret to a Cozy British Murder
“You just go, ‘Okay, someone’s been murdered.’ And then, ‘Let’s not dwell on what that means, but just on who did it.’”
Ludwig, which premieres on BritBox March 20, seeks to correct this, casting Mitchell as John Taylor, a reclusive puzzle-maker who lifts his pen name from a vinyl cover of Beethoven’s Symphony No. As a puzzle expert, John is wildly adept at solving the sorts of whodunits that happen on a cozy British murder show like this: stories light on violence but heavy on wit and ambience in which all the suspects are bunched together in a manor house or office building. The Art Deco world of Poirot has long since been concreted over by some ’70s town planners, and the Miss Marple chintzy rural drawing room is not a place that many people frequent.
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