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Loading... Service of All the Dead (1979)by Colin Dexter
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) jollyavis | Oct 20, 2024 |  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. (  ) Robertgreaves | Sep 15, 2023 | ) VivienneR | Sep 11, 2023 | ) apende | Jul 12, 2022 | ) ElegantMechanic | May 28, 2022 |
 Tricky Mr. Dexter is again a tad too tricky for his own good in this fourth case involving Inspector Morse. It begins beautifully--40 pages setting up the potentially explosive situations among people attached to Oxford's Church of St. Frideswide. Then, however, Dexter jumps forward in time--as moody Morse, on semi-vacation, starts looking into the casualties that have indeed ensued at St. Frideswide's: though the characters are fine, the atmosphere perfect, and Morse darkly intriguing, one can only concur when the local magistrate says: "Doesn't all this seem to you an extraordinarily complicated business, Inspector?" It is indeed, and only those partial to super-contrived crime puzzles will fully enjoy the benefits of Dexter's wry, cool, quintessentially British talents. Awards
The fourth novel in Colin Dexter's phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series. Now reissued with a fresh cover look. 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 have closed the case. Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive. Service of All the Dead is followed by the fifth Inspector Morse mystery, The Dead of Jericho. No library descriptions found. |
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