pickI listened to the audio with my husband on our drive back from TN on the 28th. Knowing it was first published in the 70s explains some of the weirder parts (like the discussion on rape by some irredeemable male side characters). Morse is likable and the mystery was satisfying.
so-soThe 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.
"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
pickNicholas Quinn, a member of the Oxford Foreign Examinations Syndicate, who is almost totally deaf but a very talented lip reader, is found murdered at his home. Morse and Lewis investigate.
I enjoy these stories, and there was a good twist at the end, but I wish Hathaway was involved.
Taking photos of beautiful books in glass cabinets is lowkey kind of frustrating- but check this out! They should republish the series with these covers, stat.
Anyone else think Morse is a bit of a creep? Also that Colin Dexter is a bit of a creep?
Loved, loved, loved Lewis, but never watched Morse. Think I will continue to not watch Morse. Blech.
so-soMore 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
Last Bus to Woodstock is the first Inspector Morse mystery. It begins just where Endeavour (TV) leaves off and was also adapted as part of the first Morse series.
#crimefiction #mysteries #murdermysteries
