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Bezig met laden... Requiem een inspecteur Morse-thriller (1979)door Colin Dexter
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Story of a series of deaths at St. F's at Oxford. Morse is on vacation and wanders by a church and hears about death 6 months ago and goes digging and giving up his vacation (surprise). For me, it got way too convoluted with the different suspects and victims and what order did the church service go in and all that intricately plotted mystery stuff- not my kind of mystery. Atmosphere was also only ok- more of Morse and Oxford, but nothing new. Morse and Lewis are the same and entertaining, as expected. Ruth Rawlinson is the surprise interest in the book. That part was engaging. Still undecided on the Morse series four books in. The writing is good, particularly the dialogue, but Dexter continues his smug extended explanation of the mystery at the end and it's just a very long "Here's all the things which were vaguely hinted at, but which you couldn't have worked out" session which kills the momentum dead for the last 10% of the book. The casual racism in this one (a short encounter with someone described as a "Chinaman" who literally says "Me verree sorree") is a painful reminder of the story's 1979 vintage although apart from that it feels thoroughly modern.
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. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Inspector Morse (4) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Den svarte serie (206) Prijzen
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 ... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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. ( )