Nothing better than creating a recurring protagonist like Inspector Morse to pivot a literary career. Because after meeting Endeavor Morse the reader always wants to know more. From his hobbies and oddities, a kind of anti-heroic hero rises up who inhabited pages and pages for more than twenty years and who have been slowly being translated into Spanish.
So, even though good old Dexter has disappeared, we can still enjoy his work as his novels are being reissued. It's worth discovering a guy whose pervasive animosity, his distrust of the human species, and his skepticism make him the perfect all-knowing investigator of the darkness of the human soul. crime narrative with that scent of true crime. Investigations that trace cases parallel to life itself, to that space of events that overwhelm us from the drift of the emotional, of ambitions, of truncated desires to hatred...
Colin Dexter's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Last bus to Woodstock
The begining of everything. The birth of an Inspector Morse who arrived to provide the unmistakable stamp of him in search of the most daring criminals. Morse is the best to pull the thread that leads to the murderer. Only from the beginning Morse teaches us to rediscover the clues in his own way, to act in the most unorthodox way, to achieve his goal regardless of the means...
The lifeless body of Sylvia Kaye appears outside a pub in Woodstock, a small and peaceful British town. Oxford Police Inspector Morse (an alumnus of the prestigious local university, passionate about Wagner music, crossword puzzles and pints of beer) is sure he knows who the girl Sylvia was seen with at a bus stop is. that fateful night and who seems to have the key to solving the murder. But Morse's irrepressible sarcasm and overconfidence in her deductive skills immediately clash with the young woman's coldness, making it clear that uncovering the painful truth and acting on it will require every ounce of the inspector's professional discipline...
Oxford as a backdrop, seamless storylines and elaborate character development are the three unmistakable hallmarks that have made Colin Dexter one of the most important contemporary exponents of the genre, a true master of classic crime fiction.
last seen
Witnesses have the missing link in any investigation. But the true last time the victim was seen alive is never the last time for those witnesses. Because this macabre honor corresponds to the murderer who watches the fading of the eyes. In the meantime a dark abyss that only someone like Morse can enter to undo the dark fog of facts.
Valerie Taylor, a teenage student at Roger Bacon Comprehensive School in Kidlington, north of Oxford, disappears without a trace. Two years later, and shortly after her case is back in the news thanks to a missing persons report in The Sunday Times, Ainley, the investigating inspector, is killed in a traffic accident, and Valerie's parents they receive a letter postmarked from London, apparently written by their daughter, saying that she is well.
Inspector Morse and his assistant, Sergeant Lewis, will be assigned to the case. Morse, convinced that Valerie is dead, will try to find out what really happened on the day of her disappearance: the girl had gone home to eat, and was last seen wearing her school uniform and a bag when she was returning to the house. school…
Death is my neighbor
One of the last installments of the series. Morse already has a few cases behind him. Enough for professional weariness to make a dent in an investigator after criminals of all kinds. But Morse is indefatigable because he is back from everything. He mistrusts the human so much that he expects anything. And at times it seems that discovering the criminal is just a game for him. A game on the edge of the knife but a game nonetheless.
Driving his boss back to Kidlington, Lewis picked up the conversation from where it started. "You haven't told me what you think of this guy, Owens, the neighbor who lives next door to the dead woman." "Death is always our next-door neighbor," Morse said, his tone grim. The murder of a young woman... A cryptic "seventeenth century" love poem... And a photograph of a mysterious gray-haired man...
More than enough to put Chief Inspector Morse on the trail of a murderer. And, precisely, a clue leads him to Londonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr. Denis Cornford for the coveted post of Director reaches its climax. And that's when Morse faces a deeper and much more personal crisis...
