Lincoln Rhyme, the paralysed detective from The Bone Collector, gets a TV show

Unlike in the novel, Rhyme will not be suicidal over the accident that left him disabled. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM YOUTUBE
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LOS ANGELES - The character of Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective who chases serial killers, will be no stranger to fans of Jeffery Deaver's crime novels.

But the last time he was spotted on screen was in The Bone Collector, the 1999 film based on the Deaver book of the same name starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

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