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the plot was pretty twisted and the murderer quite well hidden, I felt like the book plodded a lot and totally dropped off at the end.
The "Inspector Morse" Masterpiece Theater mysteries are much better, I wanted to return to this series after hearing of the death of Colin Dexter, and I wasn't disappointed.
This is a great read, a real pageturner, so many twists and turns along the way, After reading a few books recently which were a bit of a drag, it was a treat to read something I wanted to keep coming back to.
I did find the ending a bit convoluted and felt it let down the story a bit, but it didn't really detract from my enjoyment of this book.
As an aside, it's always a surprise when the literary Morse makes some sexist or leering remark you know the gentlemanly TV Morse played by John Thaw would never dream of saying!

Thumbs up to this book will definitely be reading some more.
Complicatissima risoluzione di un plot costruito magistralmente come al solito da Dexter, Con lo svagato ispettore Morse che da un'epifania all'altro mette insieme le tessere di un puzzle più intricato del solito.

E' riposante leggere un giallo senza Dna, scena del crimine, guanti di plastica, autopsie e con la totale assenza di momenti terrorizzanti.
Perfino il doppio finale è guidato con mano bonaria e sorniona,
Morse non patisce le depressioni di Wallander, o le crisi di superego di Poirot, non è così disincantato come Maigret, o disamorato come Carvalho.
E, stranamente per un giallo inglese, nessuno dico nessuno! si beve una tazza di tè ma solo tanta birra.

I'm a huge British mystery fan, I can't help it, it's a joy I cant escape in any format book, TV, or movie.
Inspector Morse is my all time favorite TV show, and for some reason I had not read through the novels before.
This book is superb. I thought I knew what was happening from the first season episode of the same name from, but Mr.
Dexter weaves a much more complicated tale, and had me doubting whether the book and the episode would match up in the end.


If you like mysteries of any sort, READ THIS, It was great. /

Ok, so I finished Service of All The Dead, written by Coin Dexter.
Its the fourth book in the Inspector Morse Series,

So, overall, it was a fantastic read, I really enjoyed the book, It had everything I really like in a Detective Mystery, The Murder, the Detective, the Murderer and the Actual Method of Crime were all topnotch, as they often are with Colin Dexter.
But, what elevated this book above the rest of the series, for me was the emotional payoff we got at the end of the book.
Many too often, in Inspector Morse Stories, romance is teased, but never realized, Here, atleast, was an outlier to that trend, as, it seems, that finally, Morse got the girl.
Let's hope that its permanent,

So, with my general thoughts out of the way, let's review this book as we usually do:

The Detective and the Method of Detection :/
The Criminal :/
The Method of Crime :/

The Detective, as usual, is Chief Inspector Morse, of the Oxford Constabulary.
He is as witty and clever as always, Finding clues and asking questions that most people overlook, Forming insane theories, long before there is any evidence to support them, is the staple of this series.
And that continues here as well, There is no perceptible differnence between the Morse found here and the one found in his previous outings.
But, still, I appreciated him more in this book, I think the reason is because the actual murder mystery, once you find out about it, is quite a simple one.
It only seems to be difficult because we do not know the answer, It is quite difficult to pull off a simple mystery that looks maddeningly complex at the onset of the challenge, and then becomes quite commonplace, as we peel off the layers one by one.
And this has been pulled off masterfully by Colin Dexter, And from the perspective of the readers, a detective who can find a simple answer for a complex problem is much more likable and respected than someone who can find a complex answer for a complex problem.


Moving on to the Criminal and the Method of Crime, Like all the previous entries in the series, the Criminal is not some genius mastermind who can think five steps ahead of the detective and the

readers, but just some average person with average skills someone like you or me.
And this is why Inspector Morse Novels are so good, The Method of Crime is quite simple, It is the execution which makes this mystery, The Criminal serves a perfunctory role which anyone can serve, making the mystery realistic, You can believe that such things can occur in your neighbourhood, and that the crime can be commited by your neighbour.
Just bloody brilliant. It also allows to increase the pool of suspects, Many too often, you will find mysteries with only two or three real suspects, with the rest just being background scenery.
Well, not with mystery, as every character introduced in the story could realistically commit the murders,

Overall, this is a simple, though brilliant mystery with a believable criminal and an absolute master of a detective.
What more can you ask for

Can't wait to read more,
This is theth Inspector Morse book, and without question, the best one to date, Morses personality has gelled and the more egregious sexism from the earlier books is much mellowed, Sergeant Lewis has become comfortable with Morses volatile character and his, er, devotion to beer,

This plot is complex and convoluted in a good way, There are several deaths, all related to the others but not all murders, I love Morse, but I think this is the worse Morse novel I've read, The plot is unlikely in the extreme, and you'd think the book was written in the earlys, rather than, given the attitudes to homosexuality and women.
Not a total let down as always it's intriguing along the way, and any Morse fan will want to read it.
But definitely a relative low, A particularly convoluted web is woven by Dexter, with a multiplicity of murders, Classic detective story structure, with unobtrusive clues sprinkled throughout clues that only make sense in retrospect when the final surprise is revealed.
This is the second time I read 'Service of All the Dead', and I have somehow managed to forget how wonderful and relaxing the Morse series is.
Perfect for these coronaquarantine days, I am definitely going to read the series again I also discovered that I remember very little of the plot, so I imagine it will be like discovering the series again.
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Description: This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself, He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off.
But he finds the crimethe brutal killing of a suburban churchwardenfascinating, In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St, Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well, And as he digs into the lives and unsanctified lusts of the late vicar's erring flock, the list of the dead grows longer.
Not even the oddly appealing woman he finds scrubbing the church floor can compensate Morse for the trouble he's let himself in for.
So he has another pint, follows his hunches, and sets out to untangle the deadly business of homicide.


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I could hardly believe my eyes! I'd barely begun chapterparagraphwhen Colin Dexter used an off the cuff racial slur to describe the colour of a woman's skirt! And not just any old slur, but the most offensive, grandaddy slur of all time! It stopped me in my tracks I think I even shouted out loud when I came across it, I was just that taken aback! I quickly searched out the publication dates to learn that it was not in fact written in the's as one might expect, but rather published inand again in paperback in, without once having this offensive descriptor edited off the page and out of existance! Did the author's racial bigotry colour my enjoyment of the novel Perhaps.
But I also found the setting, the characters, the dialogue and the manner in which they related to each other just as anachronistic as the racial slur itself.
It's as if the author continued to live and write in an era but not about that era that no longer existed.
The world had long since moved on by the time he wrote this, but he himself had not.
As for the storyline, the plot was so convoluted and the narrative so wordy that it was difficult to follow.
The temptation to skip over great swaths became harder to ignore the closer to the end I got, and in the end I hardly cared who dunnit or why I was just glad that it was over.
Decent enough English skills though, but I'd expect no less from a Cambridge grad, An excellent twisty tale of murders in a church, and the irascible, sharpwitted, blueeyed, aleloving Inspector Morse moves in to investigate along with DS Lewis.
The writing, plot structure and characterisations are better written compared to the previous ones in the series.
So, if you haven't read Inspector Morse mysteries before, this would be the perfect place to start off.


My Rating/The fourth Morse book,

I did not enjoy this as much as some of the others as I found the plot so convoluted that I had to keep stopping to remind myself who was doing what, where and why!!!!

Even when I finished I could not have repeated the actual plot to someone else!

However, Morse is his usual irascible self and much of the plot is interesting if fiendishly difficult to follow maybe its just me!! Indicazioni editoriali
Vagabondando per le strade di Oxford nel suo primo giorno di ferie lispettore Morse capita in una chiesa antica in cui aleggia il ricordo di un mistero irrisolto.
Il sagrestano di St Frideswide è stato assassinato alcuni mesi prima con una coltellata durante una funzione religiosa e il vicario della chiesa si è ucciso dopo qualche tempo buttandosi dalla torre del campanile.
Morse rinuncia alle vacanze e si butta a capofitto in un caso difficile, In attesa che la Sellerio le ripubblichi tutte, Luca ha comperato da una signora siciliana un'indagine del mitico Morse in realtà due, l'altra è in coda di lettura con lo sfondo di una Oxford campagnola una in cui si legge, per dire, della donna che va a fare le pulizie in chiesa in bicicletta e delle case con la porta laccata di blu e il vialetto costeggiato da erbacce.
Mai, nemmeno in una pagina, c'è caduta di interesse e anche se si fatica ad intuire l'assassino o meglio, non lo si capisce fino a paginal'epilogo è ben spiegato e credibile.
Dexter gioca parecchio con la curiosità morbosa del lettore circa le tendenze dei preti e gli intrighi amorosi tra i fedeli alla messa e lo asseconda spesso nelle sue deduzioni più scontate, ma la sorpresa è architettata molto intelligentemente e soddisfa in pieno.
Come il detto dei marinai che hanno una sposa in ogni porto, anche Morse finisce col chiudere abbarbicato ad una donna, promettendo chissà quali sviluppi.
E' scontato che al prossimo omicidio sarà ancora spiantato e accompagnato perlopiù da Lewis, incredibilmente paziente e cuscino di gomma per tutti gli sbalzi d'umore del suo ispettore.
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