Helpful Score: 2
Colin Dexter's books featuring Inspector Morse are brainteasers in that it isn't easy figuring out who the murderer is in this book as well as in other Inspector Morse books. For many Americans used to myteries with action every other page, this book moves too slow. I love British mysteries but even I found this book a bit slow. However, its saving grace, like many "slow moving" British novel, is the characters depicted. Many of them are so eccentric; so private and kind of snooty. (P.D.James is the queen of the nasty character...) The type of people you love to read about but would hate to meet. The plot concerns a professor at Wolsey College, Dr. Felix McClure, who has been stabbed to death. In another part of Wolsey, three women - a housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute - are playing out an unfolding drama of their own. As Morse puts his formidable thinking cap on, he sees the connection between Dr. Wolsey's murder and these 3 women at the end.
Helpful Score: 1
Another good Morse mystery for fans of British novels.
