- This edition read as an e-book on my Kindle (Amazon)
- ASIN : B0FG3X5NH8
- Publisher : Pan, Publication date : August 21, 2009
- Originally published 1976
- Print length : 309 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0330468527
- Book 2 of 13 : Inspector Morse
Synopsis (Amazon)
Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
Why now? Why Friday 12th September – two years, three months and two days after Valerie Taylor had left home to return to afternoon school?
He frowned. ‘Something’s turned up, I suppose.’
Strange nodded. ‘Yes.’
After leaving her home in Oxford to return to school in London, seventeen-year-old Valerie Taylor completely vanished. Despite the efforts of the police and Chief Inspector Ainley, the trail went cold and she was never found.
Two years on, Ainley is dead, and Inspector Morse is handed the case. But now, someone has decided to supply some surprising new evidence . . .
My Take
This title, the second in the Morse series, was first published 50 years ago. I have read it before, and have read it again for my U3A Crime Reading Group.
Morse is given the case of the disappearance of Valerie Taylor after the death in a road accident of the original investigator. After over 2 years since Valerie left home Morse is convinced she is dead. Lewis is less convinced. They haven't worked together very often so they are still learning about each other.
Morse comes up with a number of theories about what has happened and then Lewis goes down with the flu.
An intriguing investigation
My rating: 4.5
I've also read
- 4.5, LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK - #1
- 4.3, INSPECTOR MORSE: BBB Radio Collection
- 4.5, THE SECRET OF ANNEXE THREE - #7
- 4.6, THE WENCH IS DEAD -#8
- 4.3, SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD - #4
- 4.4, LAST SEEN WEARING - #2
- 4.6, THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE - #6
- 4.6, THE JEWEL THAT WAS OURS - #9
- 4.8. THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS - #10
- 4.7, THE DAUGHTERS OF CAIN - #11,
- 4.7, DEATH IS NOW MY NEIGHBOUR - #12
- 5.0, THE REMORSEFUL DAY, Colin Dexter - #13
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