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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.… (mais)
Valerie Taylor went missing 2 years ago. When what purports to be a letter from her arrives, Morse is assigned to re-open the cold case and if possible find her.
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. ( )
Overall I felt the writing was better and more engaging than the first book, however the ending of this is just abrupt, messy and unsatisfying. It felt less like Dexter finished the story and more like he just stopped writing. The characters were interesting, the mystery compelling and then it just stops with a sudden deluge of information in the last chapter that doesn't really resolve anything. I'm rating it 3 stars ("I liked it") because while it lasted it was good but I feel more like it's a 4 star book with a 1 star ending. ( )
A really solid detective novel. The mystery itself is entertaining, with enough red herrings and blind alleys to keep anyone guessing, but what really shines is the characterisation of Morse. Desperate, morose, not all that likeable but utterly believable he's a wonderfully readable character. ( )
I enjoyed this second of the Inspector Morse books almost as much as I enjoyed the first. I like that Morse is somewhat a flawed character - much like all of us. I did get a little lost in all the misconceptions that Morse had during the course of the investigation, so I was confused at times. I think Lewis and Morse make a good pair, and I look forward to reading the remainder of these books. ( )
I read most of the Morse novels over 30 years ago and then followed them up by watching the Morse TV series. I really hadn't realised, until I listened to this particular book, the extent of differences between the original books and what was done for television.
I got a little confused towards the end (or did I momentarily drop off to sleep?) with the result that I had to listen to the last hour again to be sure that I knew the way it all finished up.
LAST SEEN WEARING is #2 in the series and is full of red herrings and false threads. Morse leaps from one idea to another, often operating on a few dodgy facts, and drawing some shaky conclusions from them. He becomes very despondent after one theory after another bites the dust, but in the end he does get it right. It is a very wasteful way of doing detective work, and there is not much logic to it. All of this does make reading the novel a very academic exercise, and I guess that's what sets Colin Dexter apart from the rest.
But don't go away thinking that this Morse is the one you've seen John Thaw play. He is a much coarser person, but I think by the time we get to later in the series some of these cruder bits have been toned down. ( )
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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
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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.
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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. (