The Second Inspector Morse Omnibus
by Colin Dexter
Inspector Morse (Collections and Selections — 2, 6 & 7)
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Contains three full-length novels: The Secret of Annexe 3 which concerns a murder at the New Year celebrations at the Haworth Hotel; The Riddle of the Third Mile which is about the disappearance of Dr Browne-Smith; and Last Seen Wearing in which new evidence opens a case over two years old.Tags
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Last Seen Wearing - Quite a long time since I read any Morse and it was pretty decent. Morse is rather seedier and more fallible than the TV series, but no less interesting. However, and maybe it's just me, but who murdered Baines?
Started the second book in the Morse-series, which is, like all the other books in the series, not put together in order of appearance.
My opninion on Last Seen Wearing:
Morse really gets me confused. When reading, I often loose track of his train of thought. But, I like it when he admits that he HATES spiders :-)
The book itself is very interesting. The way Morse appears to me in the books is similar to the wha Colombo acts in his TV-series. Very distracted, forgetful.
The themes are classical: pregant girl, adultery, dispappearance, lies, blackmail, but the book never was boring.
My opninion on Last Seen Wearing:
Morse really gets me confused. When reading, I often loose track of his train of thought. But, I like it when he admits that he HATES spiders :-)
The book itself is very interesting. The way Morse appears to me in the books is similar to the wha Colombo acts in his TV-series. Very distracted, forgetful.
The themes are classical: pregant girl, adultery, dispappearance, lies, blackmail, but the book never was boring.
Another classic by Mr. Dexter.
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Norman Colin Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England on September 29, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in classics in 1953 and a master's degree in 1958 at from Christ's College, Cambridge University. He taught classics for many years, but growing deafness forced him to retire in 1966. For the next two decades, he was the senior show more assistant secretary at the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations. He retired in 1988 to become a full-time writer. He was best known for creating the character Chief Inspector Morse. The Inspector Morse series began in 1975 with Last Bus to Woodstock and ended in 1999 with The Remorseful Day. The books were adapted into the television series Inspector Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000. Dexter won the British Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for The Wench is Dead in 1989 and again in 1992 for The Way Through the Woods. He received the organization's lifetime achievement award, the Diamond Dagger, in 1997. He also wrote Cracking Cryptic Crosswords: A Guide to Solving Cryptic Crosswords in 2010. He died on March 21, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Second Inspector Morse Omnibus
- Important places
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- The secret of Annex 3 ; The riddle of the third mile ; Last seen wearing
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