Way Through the Woods
by DEXTER, COLIN
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- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330328387
- ISBN 13
- 9780330328388
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London: Pan Books Ltd, 1993. Very Good. One of Britain's most inventive and honored crime writers, Dexter ( The Jew el That Was Ours ) offers another tale in a justly acclaimed series. Again it's a story packed with nuance, wayward angles and bewildering layers of c oincidence, all explicated in masterful style. When Oxford-based Inspector Morse sets out to find Karin Eriksson, a young Swedish woman who disappeare d while vacationing in England, he opens a Pandora's box of clues and culpa bility. The missing woman's need for money, four men's need for pornography , and photographs, blackmail and multiple disappearances all play their par t in this deliberately baffling mystery, in which virtually every chapter e nds on an enigmatic note. Dexter even manages to cunningly subvert the narr ative's basic framework toward the end, when Karin Eriksson's identity come s into question. The erudite, irascible Morse remains a delightful characte r, with his shambling existence, his love for music, his obvious appeal to lonely women despite his slovenly appearance. His pedestrian, loyal subordi nate, Sgt. Lewis, buys most of the beers Morse consumes en route to the ult imate solution.
Synopsis
The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel received Gold Dagger Award in 1992.
Reviews
On Mar 5 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:
Midway through this book, I nearly called it quits because I remembered who dunnit. It finally dawned on me that I had seen this Inspector Morse mystery--probably two or three times--on my local PBS channel. But although I knew the who, I couldn't exactly recall the why or how, so on I plowed. I had originally picked up this book to see if Dexter's portrait of Morse and his junior partner Lewis squared with the characters as portrayed by John Thaw and Kevin Whateley. I was not disappointed. It was like a reunion with old friends as I followed Morse from a fortnight's vacation through a thoughtful assessment of the clues regarding a beautiful Swedish girl who had gone missing in the Oxford area the previous year. I found myself marveling at Dexter's ability to provide both subtle clues to the solving of the mystery alongside clever red herrings. I realized, too, what a skillful job Thaw and Whateley had done in faithful recreating the solitary, beer swilling, crossword genius Morse and his sweet-natured, Morse-respecting sidekick Lewis, as well as familiar minor characters such as Morse’s boss, Strange, and the pathologist, Dr. Laura Hobson.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000410
- Title
- Way Through the Woods
- Author
- DEXTER, COLIN
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330328387
- ISBN 13
- 9780330328388
- Publisher
- Pan Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
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