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Carregando... Service of All the Dead (1979)de Colin Dexter
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Robertgreaves | Sep 15, 2023 |    ) VivienneR | Sep 11, 2023 |  ) apende | Jul 12, 2022 | ) ElegantMechanic | May 28, 2022 | ) njcur | Mar 30, 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. Prêmios
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 ... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.78)
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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. (