- format: audio from Audible
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 6
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-05-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all....
By the 16th of July, the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet worried.
Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.
Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder..
My Take
This is another cunningly constructed mystery, plenty of red herrings, so many that we lose sight of others who have disappeared, in our focus on one person. Eventually Morse gets help from a surprising quarter, which throws a very different light on his investigation.
These books are superbly read by Samuel West, and there's a literary quality to them that is rarely found in crime fiction.
My rating: 4.6
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