- Hardcover
- Publisher: Crown (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0609606220
- ISBN-13: 978-0609606223
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Swan Song,
This review is from: The Remorseful Day (Mass Market Paperback)
The logophilic, curmudgeonly Chief Inspector makes his last bow in this absorbing mystery. As with all Morse novels, the entertainment comes not so much from the plot as from the character of Morse himself and the strange personalities he comes across during the course of his investigations. The lover of crossword puzzles, Wagner, beautiful women, Scotch and Faure's Requiem makes brilliant deductions (often brilliantly wrong), but the faithful cricketer Sergeant Lewis is always there to set him back on the right course. Colin Dexter succeeds in making grammar interesting and has elevated the selection of chapter epigraphs to an art form! The thirteen Morse novels are a unique and enduring addition to the crime canon, and it is a remorseful day indeed when it comes time to say goodbye.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Skillful twists lead to demise,
By dikybabe "admeyer" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Remorseful Day (Mass Market Paperback)
Colin Dexter's ability to weave a good tale is masterful indeed. His work truly works one's mind. There is no easy way through a Morse tale, even this last one. Dexter's use of appropos tidbits to introduce each short chapter have the links one finds in Annie Proulx. These Dexter novels are no simple whodunnits. I, too, love the PBS Mystery series featuring Morse and plan on taping and watching The Remorseful Day and its prequel The Final Morse this Thursday night. I am glad that I met the challenges of reading the novel first. One feels that Morse's death is a self-fulling prophecy. His alcoholism and diabetes do not produce a new Morse, just a dying one. This demise is both inevitable and in character. All the strings are found and tied up with this final chapter of his life. I find that I am not only entertained by Dexter's writing. I grow mentally as well. I really must get to Oxford before I die. Now that Morse is gone, I have one more reason.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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All good things have to end,
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This review is from: The Remorseful Day (Mass Market Paperback)
The Inspector Morse book as well as TV series (played by John Thaw) was and still remains one of my favorits British mystery series. John Thaw was the perfect Inspector Morse and thinking back at reading this book, makes me so sad that both Inspector Morse and John Thaw have passed on.
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