In his essay Decline of the English Murder, the writer George Orwell evokes the pleasure to be had in reading about killing. The Thursday Murder Club itself, for example, features not only two new killings for the quartet of older investigators to unravel, but memories of brutal gangland executions and a tragic suicide. Now The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for the screen, enjoying a short cinema release before its streaming on Netflix. One of the delights offered by Osman’s original is its knowing references to other crime fiction. The film engages in some narrative business, of course, offering a set of murders for investigation and solution.