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by Colin Dexter
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by Colin Dexter
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Read absorbingly by Kevin Whateley - known to lovers of the Inspector Morse television series as Sergeant Lewis - this is a fine mystery with a plot whose track twists and turns, finally reaching a solution in the third mile. Although tormented by severe toothache, Morse enjoys the challenge of the headless and limbless corpse found in the canal. Can the body be that of the Oxford don Dr Browne-Smith, reported missing by the Master of Lonsdale College? A damp letter found in the pocket of its suit is barely legible but to a keen solver of cryptic crosswords like Morse it soon yields up its secrets. The story begins many years before at the battle of El Alamein during the Second World War. Twins Alf and Bert Gilbert survived the campaign but their younger brother John was not so lucky. From North Africa the narrative leaps to the present time and an examiners' meeting in Oxford, and from there to the topless bars and unlikely temptresses of sleazy Soho. The irascible inspector and his admiring sidekick Lewis interview witnesses in Oxford and in London but become more and more baffled, and soon more bodies are found. Eventually Morse comes up with a theory - but one big piece of the jigsaw is missing and remains so until the very end. Complete with the depth of character, literary allusions and witty style that we have come to expect from Colin Dexter, this is one of the most satisfying More novels to be published. (Kirkus UK)
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'The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all...' By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith has passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15am on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...
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Read absorbingly by Kevin Whateley - known to lovers of the Inspector Morse television series as Sergeant Lewis - this is a fine mystery with a plot whose track twists and turns, finally reaching a solution in the third mile. Although tormented by severe toothache, Morse enjoys the challenge of the headless and limbless corpse found in the canal. Can the body be that of the Oxford don Dr Browne-Smith, reported missing by the Master of Lonsdale College? A damp letter found in the pocket of its suit is barely legible but to a keen solver of cryptic crosswords like Morse it soon yields up its secrets. The story begins many years before at the battle of El Alamein during the Second World War. Twins Alf and Bert Gilbert survived the campaign but their younger brother John was not so lucky. From North Africa the narrative leaps to the present time and an examiners' meeting in Oxford, and from there to the topless bars and unlikely temptresses of sleazy Soho. The irascible inspector and his admiring sidekick Lewis interview witnesses in Oxford and in London but become more and more baffled, and soon more bodies are found. Eventually Morse comes up with a theory - but one big piece of the jigsaw is missing and remains so until the very end. Complete with the depth of character, literary allusions and witty style that we have come to expect from Colin Dexter, this is one of the most satisfying More novels to be published. (Kirkus UK)
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'The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all...' By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith has passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15am on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...
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