Article: AMID IRKS AND QUIRKS, 'MYSTERY' CHARACTERS CAST 10-YEAR NET OF INTRIGUE.(TV Magazine)

Byline: Bob Wisehart Newhouse News Service

Have you ever noticed that the great sleuths and mystery mavens of fiction are a lot of trouble?

It's nice to read about them or watch them work, but you wouldn't want to know one.

Consider the prickly individualists who've spent the past 10 years chasing all variety of murderers and cads across the airwaves on public TV's "Mystery," which celebrates its 10th anniversary Monday.

Not the least of the accomplishments of Horace Rumpole, the rumpled, paunchy barrister-sleuth who's entirely too fond of cheap wine and cheaper cigars, is that he more or less started "Mystery" on course with the ...

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