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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A really good read..., 11 May 2003
I have just finnished reading this book and have found it is for confident readers and is not a story for one to read when tired, for the brain needs to concentrate as much as possible on adding clues together and remembering what different people have said. This is a book for people who like to read books based on crime. I do and i found it thoroughly enjoying to read. If you want to know more then i have written a small synopsise below.
The murder all starts when Sylvia Kaye is found dead at the back of a pub - the Black Prince. Everyone assumes that she had been raped and murdered, even Inspector Morse. Inspecter Morse and Sergeant Lewis review the murder and find clues from everyone involved with Sylvia Kaye's life, Throughout the book Colin Dexter has managed to fool minds to think of many different people who could have pursued the murder. When you do find out who the murderer is, it is someone most unexpected but i shall let you find out who it is when you read the book!
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5 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this Inspector Morse mystery by Colin Dexter, 14 Jun 2007
I really enjoyed this Inspector Morse mystery by Colin Dexter and I wasn't disappointed. I liked the Prelude opening to the book and I could sense the girl waiting for THE LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK; her friend however wasn't really keen and she was told by her friend to wait a few more minutes.
I thought the characters Jennifer Coleby and Bernard Crowther were both shady characters and I was really really surprised by Sue Widdowson (however a crime novel is full of twists and turns) and Colin Dexter's book was no exception.
Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis I thought made a great team; however at the beginning of the book I thought that Lewis in his conversations with Morse appeared very nervous (I wonder if this is because this was Lewis' first big case with Morse). As the novel progressed I thought that Lewis had got over his nerves and as a result he gained in confidence.
I liked Morse's interviewing technique and he wasn't afraid to speak his mind as Jennifer Coleby found out to her cost.
A surprising character was Sue Widdowson and it was apparent that Morse was falling in love with her but what a shock for him when he found out the truth about the character.
I haven't read all the Morse books but I will certainly rectify this and I'm sure that 'new' readers to Morse will like the books too.
I found Morse to be a very good detective but I think away from his work the reader sees a very private and lonely man.
I know the Remourseful Day is the last novel regarding Morse and I know that the character was 'killed off'. I don't know whether Colin Dexter still writes crime novels but I think it was disappointing that he has no more books out at the present time because he is a good writer.
Thanks Colin for a great book.
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4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Is sex more trouble than it's worth? I keep wanting to find the answer.", 28 Sep 2006
The first in the series of Inspector Morse mysteries, this 1975 story of murder centers on the death of Sylvia Kaye, a young woman who has been found dead in the car park of a local pub by the young man she was supposed to meet. The biggest clues to her death are a letter in code addressed to a woman Sylvia worked for at an insurance agency and a hand-delivered envelope large enough to have contained a significant amount of money. Running parallel with this investigation of Sylvia, her friends, and her free-wheeling lifestyle, is the story of Oxford dons, one of whom is hoping to become the new department chair, a position his wife is very anxious for him to attain.
Morse and Sgt. Lewis show only hints of the personalities that will develop later as the series continues. The beer-drinking Morse is a student of literature, and he enjoys discussing the poetry of Herbert Spenser and John Wilmot with Angie Hartman, a young Oxford student. Depicted as something of a young hot-shot, Morse relies on Sgt. Lewis, who, surprisingly, is described as older than Morse in this book and somewhat more adept at police procedure, another difference from later novels and from the TV series.
As Morse investigates the insurance agency where Sylvia worked, the young man she was supposed to meet, and life at Oxford, the plot lines, most of them involving "illicit" sex, begin to converge. Max, the pathologist in the series, makes his first brief appearance here, and several quirky characters give life to the mystery as Morse investigates a fairly standard but well-plotted whodunit. Fans of the series will be intrigued to see the characters as Colin Dexter first conceived of them and will delight in making comparisons between this first novel and his later ones. Mary Whipple
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