Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

Inspector Japp is an astonishingly interesting character. I love it when I stumble across pieces of information I somehow overlooked before upon re-reading a book.

[ID: a text snippet from the Hercule Poirot story "The Market Basing Mystery" by Agatha Christie:

‘After all, there’s nothing like the country, is there?’ said Inspector Japp, breathing in heavily through his nose and out through his mouth in the most approved fashion.

Poirot and I applauded the sentiment heartily. It had been the Scotland Yard inspector’s idea that we should all go for the weekend to the little country town of Market Basing. When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.

‘Nobody knows us, and we know nobody,’ explained Japp. ‘That’s the idea.’ /end ID].

He reminds me a lot of book!Inspector Barnaby by Caroline Graham who too loves plants and knows them good enough to draw them in great detail when thinking about a case😊

Midsomer Murders

Book vs Show: Casting John Nettles as Tom Barnaby

- Caroline Graham, Written in Blood

Yes, this is my favorite character in that book🤣🤣

(this is not how he gets introduced tho - much more civil😌, and I'd like to add that he's a very sweet and gentle man; but this quote, the last line especially... Caroline Graham.... 🤣🤣👌🏻 - kinda reminds me of the first appearance of Artemis Fowl 😂😂)

But I think this is my favorite scene with him💛

Curse you Caroline Graham for making me cry over the murder victim in one of your Midsomer Murder Mysteries......

Not only did you kill of my favorite character in that book (instead of one of the seemingly thousand unpleasant characters that get to roam freely and be unsympathetic....) but you also did it in one of the few stories that didn't get turned into a movie so on top of all that I won't ever see him for real....

I see now why they never made this one into a movie.... Would've painted Tom Barnaby in not a good light.... Not at all... 😒

After reading the book, everything is forgiven and forgotten (well, almost) cause he caught the murderer (what, tbh, wasn't that hard.........). I also really like what Caroline Graham does at the end of every of her Midsomer Murders Mysteries - it's called "Afterwards" and sums up, as the name says, what the people involved in the case (I have the feeling that she focuses much more on the people involved than on the investigation itself, I don't mind tho🤷🏻‍♂️) are up to after the murder has been solved (the Barnaby's too what is nice imo) 🤗

Curse you Caroline Graham for making me cry over the murder victim in one of your Midsomer Murder Mysteries......

Not only did you kill of my favorite character in that book (instead of one of the seemingly thousand unpleasant characters that get to roam freely and be unsympathetic....) but you also did it in one of the few stories that didn't get turned into a movie so on top of all that I won't ever see him for real....

I see now why they never made this one into a movie.... Would've painted Tom Barnaby in not a good light.... Not at all... 😒

—

from Death of a Hollow Man by Caroline Graham

I’m not saying the books or the show are perfect in terms of queer representation and some of decisions about the transferral from book to screen seem especially questionable but

I love this, that in the books Troy (who is not presented as a particularly likeable person) is an oblivious, huge homophobe and biphobe but Tom Barnaby is repeatedly referred to as being, shall we say, massively unimpressed by Troy’s bigotry (and his attitude to that was also kept in the show, in Blue Herrings for instance).