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Similarities to another mystery?


Has anyone else noticed that the hospital subplot in Series 7, episode 4 (that is, "Benefit of the Doubt" part 2) is incredibly similar to one in Alexander McCall Smith's The Good Husband of Zebra Drive? I know that there are only so many twists that one can come up with, but I wonder what writer David Gilman must have thought if he read the book or saw the HBO dramatization? I like both Frost and Mma Ramotswe, but in this case she definitely nicked his plot twist.

"She told me," Tati Monyena said, "and since it was so much like the episode of Frost that aired five years ago, I figured out what happened immediately!"

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you mean the patients dying because a cleaner unplugged the equipment? - I knew what was about to happen just before it happened because it suddenly reminded me of an allegedly true story from a local paper quoted in the (UK) Telegraph about 5-8 years earlier. Turns out it's a well known international urban myth going back to the 60s. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/cleaner.asp

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