This character has a wooden peg to replace the leg destroyed by Moby Dick.

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Actor Neil Dudgeon will replace the central character as DCI John Barnaby, Tom's cousin, when the series returns to TV screens next week.

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The central idea is that when reading a story, you replace yourself as the main character.

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