With his new show “Bookish,” Mark Gatiss hasn’t tired of coming up with ways to kill people. “Sherlock Holmes himself said, ‘There’s nothing new under the sun,’” says the Emmy-winning co-creator/star of “Sherlock,” adding, “It’s a constant challenge because you’re trying to think how you can surprise people and what hasn’t already been done.”
A murder mystery aficionado (he’s currently fighting the temptation to purchase the prop newspaper used in the 1974 film “Murder on the Orient Express”), Gatiss is both impressed and indebted to the work of Agatha Christie. “She came up with every kind of possibility for who could have done it, and she got there first,
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