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The Daughters of Cain (Mass Market Paperback)

by Colin Dexter (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Ivy
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804113645
ISBN-13: 978-0804113649
Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.7 x 2.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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This is item 11 in The Inspector Morse Series.

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The 11th Inspector Morse mystery finds the occasionally caustic detective investigating the murder of a retired academic.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The irascible Inspector Morse plumbs the connections between the stabbing death of Dr. Felix McClure of Wolsey College and three very different women. Reprint. PW. NYT.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Daughters of Who?, July 31 2000

By	"jrountree" (Gainesville, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

I am afraid that this book was not that interesting to me. I was disturbed by the fact that every one of these women were disturbed on some level. I felt so sorry for Ellie. I wished that she could have gotten her life together. I didn't think that all pieces of the puzzle fit together. The book confused me to the point that by the end I was not very interested in it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary detective novel, July 30 2000

By	RolloTomasi (California) - See all my reviews

I was a bit wary about starting this novel--I didn't care for THE WENCH IS DEAD or THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS (found them horribly dull, actually)--but I decided to give it a try. It was well worth the effort; of all the Dexter mysteries I've read, THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN is easily the best.

A former Oxford professor, Dr. Felix McClure, is found stabbed to death in his flat, and as usual, Inspector Morse and his faithful Watson, Sergeant Lewis, are assigned the case. The two discover a suspicious connection between McClure and a ne'er-do-well named Ted Brooks, who himself vanishes suddenly. As you'd expect from the title, the cast of suspects is almost exclusively female, and Dexter does a fantastic job of probing the passions--both love and hatred--that drive women to murder.

Interestingly enough, the most perplexing question is not so much whodunit as howdunit, and the solution that Dexter provides is very tricky, and very clever. You'd be hard-pressed, though, to find a writer plays more fairly with clues; all the information necessary to deduce the solution is there, albeit hidden in plain sight.

But this novel entertains on many levels, plot being the least of them. With Morse at his grumpy, endearingly brilliant best, and Lewis acting once again as the perfect comic foil, the journey is as much fun as the destination. The story is well-paced, and all the characters are so thoroughly engaging that even the less action-packed segments (which basically means the whole book--this is a British mystery, after all) are fascinating. Finally, no other writer in the English language writes quite like Colin Dexter, whose impeccably idiosyncratic prose is a joy to read. The dialogue is frequently hilarious, the social observations are sharp but subtle, and the use of language (words like "dolichocephalic" pop up more than once) is marvelously quirky. In all, a delightfully sophisticated, immensely satisfying piece of writing.

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