|
Loading... 1,171 | 31 | 16,741 |
(3.68) | 34 | Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine. The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case.… (more) |
▾LibraryThing Recommendations ▾Will you like it?
Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 34 mentions ▾Series and work relationships Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a study
|
Canonical title |
|
Original title |
|
Alternative titles |
|
Original publication date |
|
People/Characters |
|
Important places |
|
Important events |
|
Related movies |
|
Epigraph |
Chapter One Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V Chapter Two We'll get excited with Ring seat (10) Clue from a Ximenes crossword puzzle Chapter Three A man is little use when his wife's a widow. Scottish proverb Chapter Four As far as I could see there was no connection between them beyond the tenuous nexus of succession. Peter Champkin Chapter Five She turned away, but with the autumn weather Compelled my imagination many days, Many days and many hours. T. S. Eliot, La Figlia Che Piange Chapter Six He certainly has a great deal of fancy, and a very good memory; but, with a perverse ingenuity, he employs these qualities as no other person does. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Chapter Seven And French she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For French of Paris was to hir unknowe. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Chapter Eight Gypsy Rose Lee, the strip-tease artist, has arrived in Hollywood with twelve empty trunks. Harry V. Wade, American columnist Chapter Nine We hear, for instance, of a comprehensive school in Connecticut where teachers have three pads of coloured paper, pink, blue, and green, which are handed out to pupils as authority to visit respectively the headmaster, the office or the lavatory. Robin Davis, The Grammar School Chapter Ten Not a line of her writing have I, Not a thread of her hair. Thomas Hardy, Thoughts of Phena Chapter Eleven All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Oscar Wilde Chapter Twelve Even the dustbin lid is raised mechanically At the very last moment You could dispose of a corpse like this Without giving the least offence. D. J. Enright, No Offence: Berlin Chapter Thirteen Man kann den Wald nicht vor Bäumen sehen. German proverb Chapter Fourteen I am a man under authority. St. Matthew, ch. 8, v. 9 Chapter Fifteen 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week because they go different ways upon Sundays. George Farquhar Chapter Sixteen They wish to know the family secrets and to be feared accordingly. Juvenal, Satire III, 113 Chapter Seventeen And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry, And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol Chapter Eighteen In philological works ... a dagger † signifies an obsolete word. The ... sign, placed before a person's name, signifies deceased. Rules for Compositors and Readers, O.U.P. Chapter Nineteen One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Chapter Twenty Alibi (L. alibi, elsewhere, orig. locative--alius, other); the plea in a criminal charge of having been elsewhere at the material time. Oxford English Dictionary Chapter Twenty-one John and Mary are each given 20p. John gives 1p to Mary. How much more does Mary have than John? Problem set in the 11 + examination Chapter Twenty-two Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Chapter Twenty-three For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbour. Christopher Smart, My Cat Jeoffrey Chapter Twenty-four "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller Knocking on the moonlit door. Walter De La Mare, The Listeners Chapter Twenty-five For oily or spotty skin, first cleanse face and throat, then pat with a hot towel. Smooth on an even layer of luxurious "Ladypak", avoiding the area immediately around the eyes. Directions for applying a beauty mask. Chapter Twenty-six Merely corroborative detail, to add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado Chapter Twenty-seven All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy Chapter Twenty-eight An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. Shakespeare, As You Like It Chapter Twenty-nine Incest is only relatively boring. Inscription on the lavatory wall of an Oxford pub Chapter Thirty Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter Thirty-one To you, Lord Governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain -- The time, the place, the torture. O enforce it! Shakespeare, Othello, Act V Chapter Thirty-two When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. A. Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four Chapter Thirty-three She'll be wearing silk pyjamas when she comes. Popular song Chapter Thirty-four Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. Phaedrus Chapter Thirty-five "Now listen, you young limb," whispered Sikes. "Go softly up the steps straight afore you, and along the little hall, to the street door: unfasten it, and let us in." Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Chapter Thirty-six No one does anything from a single motive. S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria Chapter Thirty-seven The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. Henry IV, Part II Chapter Thirty-eight And then there were two. Ten Little Indians Chapter Thirty-nine The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton Chapter Forty For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways. A. E. Housman, Last Poems Chapter Forty-one Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? St. John, ch. 18 Chapter Forty-two I came fairly to kill him honestly. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer Epilogue There are tears of things and mortal matters touch the heart. Virgil, Aeneid I | |
|
Dedication |
For J.C.F.P. and J.G.F.P. | |
|
First words |
He felt quite pleased with himself. | |
|
Quotations |
|
Last words |
|
Disambiguation notice |
|
Publisher's editors |
|
Blurbers |
|
Original language |
|
Canonical DDC/MDS |
|
Canonical LCC |
|
▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (1)▾Book descriptions Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine. The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
|
Current DiscussionsNoneGoogle Books — Loading...
|
Lewis gets increasingly exasperated as Morse leaps from conclusion to conclusion based on little or no evidence. I knew how he felt. It does rather give the impression that Morse eventually stumbles across the truth by sheer chance rather than any powers of ratiocination. ( )