Crime clearly does pay for Thursday Murder Club author Richard Osman - after the writer and TV host saw his company's accounts double to a stunning £4.5million.

Records for Six Seven Entertainment - of which Osman, 54, is the sole director - saw its cash in bank and hand soar from £2,071,556 in 2024 to £4,451,074 in 2025.

Listed as producing 'artistic creation' on Companies House, the business was only incorporated in 2022 with £1.8million already in the bank.

It comes after a stellar year for the former Pointless host, which saw the build up to his series being adapted by Netflix, starring Dame Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley.

On its publication in 2020, The Thursday Murder Club became the only book to have sold more than one million copies in the same year as its release and the third-highest-selling hardback novel after Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows.