Mark Gatiss stars in a series he created as a London bookseller in 1946 with a talent for solving mysteries.

There’s a promise of a good time in the air, a familiar comfort only found in the best dive bars and back-porch gatherings.

That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...