The Riddle (2008) (DVD)

A pub landlady comes across an unseen manuscript by Charles Dickens. However, before she can do any more than leave a message on a journalist's phone about it, she is found dead, apparently killed. When Mike, the journalist, hears her message, he is intrigued, and eventually finds the manuscript. He teams up with Kate, a police press officer and a tramp to find out what happened to Sadie and along the way, he also becomes intrigued by a murder described in Dicken's manuscript. It soon becomes clear that if he solves Dicken's murder, then he will be a lot further forward in solving Sadie's. However, there are people who are desperate to stop him in his tracks. Will he ...  Read the complete review

This 2008 film never really made it to the big screen or even to general DVD release with any degree of success. Instead, it was heralded by The Mail on Sunday, which bought it and then mass distributed it, giving it out for free with the newspaper one Sunday. I'm surprised that it only made it into my lap in this method, because it's actually quite enjoyable in many ways. There is a convoluted plot involving a previously undiscovered Charles Dickens novel, , with journalist Mike Sullivan (Vinnie Jones) doggedly purusing the manuscript, at the same time as investigating a number of similar murders happening on the Thames' river banks, in the heart of ...  Read the complete review