The Oldie the years with such slogans as ""The Oldie": Buy it before you snuff it", and its lampooning of youth subculture and what it sees as the absurdities of modern life. It was the first mainstream publication to break the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. Despite being called "The Oldie", the magazine often stresses that it is not an age-specific publication, and has many readers in their twenties, thirties and forties. It has similarities to "Punch", "Viz", "The Spectator", "Private Eye", and "The New Yorker". The Oldie of the Year Awards (TOOTY) is the magazine's annual awards ceremony, hosted by Terry Wogan
The Emperor's Snuff-Box Woman Opposite", for which Compton Bennett wrote the screenplay. It is considered one of Carr's great novels and is considered the best among the best mystery plots with no locked room murders, impossible crimes, or supernatural elements. The Emperor's Snuff-Box The Emperor's Snuff-Box is a non-series mystery novel (1942) by mystery novelist John Dickson Carr. The detective is psychologist Dr. Dermot Kinross. The novel takes place in France and concerns a jeweled snuff-box in the shape of a pocket watch said to have belonged to Napoleon. A pretty young Englishwoman living in France forms a romantic attachment and becomes a