At least TP is still writing, Sandra: Patrick O'Brian died (but he did finish the last book first); Colin Dexter is still going, but he's killed off Morse; Patrick Cornwell ran out off Napoleonic wars and has had to start doing Sharpe prequels (which is playing the game, at any rate). I've lost touch with John Mortimer, so I've no idea if Rumpole is still doing the rounds, and my library has run out of Reginald Hill: even the BBC is showing repeats of Dalziel & Pascoe. There's quite a good forum attached to the OU Book Club, but I don't even try to keep up with them.

Somebody should write a song about this, then we couild all sing it and get it off our chests.

Steve
PS I'm the kind of insatiable reader who reads the back of the cereal packet when there's nothing else available, and since the age of seven I've been able to quote "Cette sauce de haute qualité est une melange des fruits et d'épices orienteaux ..."