The Lost Symbol, meanwhile, didn’t languish long without an adaptation of its own, eventually spawning a 10-episode Peacock prequel series starring Ashley Zukerman (of Netflix Fear Street fame).

Police have cracked the “Da Pinchi Code” after concluding that a series of mysterious symbols, said to be used by burglars to help target homes, are actually “innocent and explainable.” ...

Police say the pattern the cowboy builder left in the 70-year-old man’s paving is actually a secret code flagging the house up as an ‘easy target’.