This is one of the later Inspector Morse novels, and it's the first one I've ever read.
I loved it.
I thought it was so clever (the mystery's solution is advanced by the letters column of the local paper where enthusiastic amateurs offer the police their assistance in deducing clues from a poem ostensibly written, and published in the paper, by the murderer).
I was also charmed and bemused by Inspector Morse's need to correct the grammar of the suspects he is interrogating.
I felt the ending was very surprising. Of course, I should say that I am not as good as guessing the ending as many other mystery readers, and I think I'm looking for local color, character, surprises, and originality rather than solutions. Plenty of color and character here.
I loved it.
I thought it was so clever (the mystery's solution is advanced by the letters column of the local paper where enthusiastic amateurs offer the police their assistance in deducing clues from a poem ostensibly written, and published in the paper, by the murderer).
I was also charmed and bemused by Inspector Morse's need to correct the grammar of the suspects he is interrogating.
I felt the ending was very surprising. Of course, I should say that I am not as good as guessing the ending as many other mystery readers, and I think I'm looking for local color, character, surprises, and originality rather than solutions. Plenty of color and character here.
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