Mark Gatiss, co-creator of the popular Sherlock, is a true devotee of detective fiction, and this is evident in his latest television adventure, Bookish, a British series about a unique investigator that premieres this Tuesday on Filmin and will please fans of period pieces and books. Beyond writing it, Gatiss also stars in it: he plays Gabriel Book, the owner of a secondhand bookstore in 1946 London. Aside from his work, Book has a hobby that takes up almost more of his time than selling books: with the complicity of his wife, he helps the police solve crimes. According to Gatiss, the bookstore setting functions as a kind of "analog computer." "The answer to the mystery is there, somewhere," the creator explained to the series' director. Guardian.

In the office where Esther Gómez works, there is no sign with her name or that of her company. "It's common in the sector; it's done for confidentiality reasons," she explains. Esther wanted to be a private detective since she was little and ended up studying Private Investigation. Later, she added two specialties to her resume that have ended up taking up a large part of her work: handwriting expertise and what is technically called credibility assessment, "although everyone calls it lie detection".

"We come across quite a few fake Airbnbs; they're very organized," explains a private detective at ARA, who asks that the name of his agency be withheld: "I don't want specific cases to be linked." He has also noticed another increase: the number of assignments to prove that the tenant is not vulnerable. These are two examples of the umpteenth symptom of the housing crisis, which has hit detective agencies hard through landlords, from small landlords to large investment funds, seeking to prove the irregularities they suspect their tenants have committed. And many end up in court.