All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring David Calder, ranked

Sir Anthony Blunt, a 25-year Soviet operative who has been knighted and serving as the director of the Courtauld Institute, is frequently questioned and refuses to respond. He also offers his interrogator a conundrum in the form of a dubious Titian painting. Additionally, he restores artwork at Buckingham Palace, where he strikes up a fascinating dialogue with the Queen.

Three armed robbers meet their demise during a heist gone awry when the security van they’re targeting erupts in flames inside the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Left widowed, their spouses stumble upon their late husbands’ meticulously crafted plans for the failed robbery. Fueled by a desire for justice and retribution, they resolve to take matters into their own hands and orchestrate the heist themselves.

A boy is born in Paris, France in the year 1738. He is named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and is fostered but is a difficult, solitary child and is eventually apprenticed to a local tanner. As a result he can perform apparently magical feats such as identifying bad vegetables by the worms they contain, or visitors as they approach the house, and can navigate in total darkness by the smell of objects around him.

The Ripper has tyrannized Yorkshire for six long years. Inspector Peter Hunter is brought from Manchester by the Ministry of Interior to conduct a review of the investigation thus far. Hunter is determined not to leave without results, even if he cannot trust anyone.