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Service of All the Dead
Service of All the Dead | Colin Dexter
13 posts | 12 read | 2 to read
The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's. Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Now even the police had closed the case. Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive . . .
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rwmg
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Mehso-so

The trouble is that although I like Oxford setting and the fiendishly clever puzzles in these books, I've come to realise that despite the occasional flashes of erudition I don't actually like Morse himself very much. Yes, this is the 1970s but the spectacle of a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager who has just discovered the top shelf at the newsagent's is just too depressing.

Ruthiella Yeah, he‘s an ass. I think what I like most about the books (besides the lovely Sergeant Lewis) is how he‘s usually very wrong until he gets it right. 14mo
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rwmg
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Always glad to see antepenultimate in the wild, as it were

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rwmg
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"LIMPLY THE REVEREND Lionel Lawson shook the last smoothly gloved hand, the slim hand of Mrs Emily Walsh-Atkins, and he knew that the pews in the old church behind him were now empty."

@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays

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Leniverse
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Mehso-so

More fun on the telly.

Good prose, ridiculously contrived murder(s), and everybody's awful including Morse. And some parts really haven't aged very well.

#EasterCrime

rabbitprincess Yeah, Book Morse is rather unpleasant. I don‘t mind Morse the show, but I LOVE Endeavour 😍 2y
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TheEllieMo
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Catching up on #NovemberNarrative!

Day 1: #DayOfTheDead.

I love Morse, both the books and the TV series

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Yay! Great to have you 🤗 2y
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EvieBee
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Pickpick

“Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...”

Another thoroughly enjoyable Morse mystery on the books. I think this one‘s the best so far. Hope to finish the series this year. So on to the next!
#doublespin #bookspinbingo
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ½

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EvieBee
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So excited for #bookspinbingo this month! Here‘s my card, which is almost exclusively made up of prompts to help keep it extra flexible.
#Bookspin : Purchased in 2014
#DoubleBookspin : Service For All the Dead

Traci1 Love how you did your prompts. 3y
EvieBee @Traci1 Thank you, Traci! 🤖♥️ 3y
aa_guer2021 What an interesting way to structure your reading and the layout is so pretty! ❤️ 3y
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Megabooks Cool idea!! 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
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twinkletoes74
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Panpan

If you are expecting nice gentle Morse then you will be very disappointed. Didn‘t enjoy this.

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Lizpixie
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Bk6 of my #QuarantineLibraryHaul is another Inspector Morse novel. Unfortunately my library doesn‘t have the next in the series, is it just mine that have only certain books in a series? Every set of crime novels I‘ve looked at so far has books missing from their order, they‘ll have bk1 then Bk4 & bk7 or maybe it‘s Bk2 without the 1st. Very annoying!🙄

Leftcoastzen That‘s so frustrating.I seem to remember a time when if books went missing from a series, the library used to be very proactive in replacing them.But that was before funds had to go to computers and other media.Maybe some veteran librarians could enlighten us. 5y
ravenlee I have had this problem with the MG series my daughter reads, and the librarians said that as books are damaged/go missing they just don‘t replace them, and that they don‘t buy books more than a year or two old. But these books are obviously in high demand! I just don‘t understand. 5y
Lizpixie @Leftcoastzen @ravenlee these books are definitely more than a year or two old, but they are very popular so you‘d think they would replace them. Like the copy of Relic that I‘m currently reading was written in 1987 but the copy is obviously only a year old or less. Doesn‘t make sense🤷🏻‍♀️ 5y
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Andrew65
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Finally getting round to a book that has been stuck on my shelf for years, Book 4 in the Inspector Morse series. It was the tv programme Morse that helped develop my love for crime fiction. Reading this to cover 1979 in my #CenturyofBooks Challenge.

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TheEllieMo
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1. It varies from time to time. Right now I‘m enjoying crime/detective novels, because after watching Endeavour I decided I needed to read all the Morse books.
2. I don‘t really have one, but I‘m reading a lot of Colin Dexter right now.
3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
4. Horror
5. Slightly cheating, I finished the third Morse book (The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn), today, and starting book 4 (tagged) tomorrow.

#HelloThursday

wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 📚 6y
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kellock
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Pickpick

I read a bit of the book sat at Lewis and Hathaways table at The Buttery, Oxford, which excited me more than it should have! Another wonderfully woven story from Colin Dexter, I like how Morse seems to almost accidently happen across the truth #morse

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kellock
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Don't think I've had a better #readingspot

LeahBergen 😍 8y
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