Claim Now The Daughters Of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11) Engineered By Colin Dexter Made Available In Audio Book

think this is possibly the most enjoyable Morse mystery I have read thus far, probably because it wasnt super complicated I could actually follow it.


In terms of development of the characters, it was interesting because this is the third to the last title in the series and there are intimations of Morses retiring or perhaps even expiring due to ill heath in the near future.


As a constant, Morse is his usual prickly, slightly icky self, I will never understand how women in the books are attracted to him, yet they always are, Lewis however is making strides in terms of becoming a detective as we know he will due to the T.
V. show. Over the years, I've seen all the Inspector Morse DVDs and loved them all, Now I am making it a goal to read the original stories as written by Colin Dexter, This one came on sale for my Kindle, so I grabbed it, It's the third to last book of the series and Morse is beginning to think of retirement, His health is not so good now as he cannot seem to give up his unhealthy vices, and those vices are slowly killing him.
I wish I had not started my reading with this book though, I'm told by some that it isn't as good as some of Dexter's other Morse books, It did hop, skip, and jump around, but I managed to keep up and cheer on whoever sent vile Edward Brooks to meet his maker.
We pretty much knew who did it and didn't mind a bit, Colin Dexter uses some very long, high brow vocabulary throughout this story, but that's fine, But he seems to play games with the reader sometimes, like leaving threads untied and hanging loose, Why Will the answer appear in the next book I hope so, There are only two left because we know how it ends, Another excellent audio version with narration by Samuel West,
My respect for the writing of Colin Dexter grows, Morse is often convinced that his latest theory fits all the facts and then he finds that it doesn't.
Lewis keeps asking questions, and then the aspect he doesn't understand of Morse's theory provides the springboard for a more acceptable explanation.
Often Morse can't even explain what has given rise to his latest idea, but eventually, of course he is right.
The title holds the clues, April,


This review is from: The Daughters of Cain Mass Market Paperback
The author had started introducing the ongoing decline of Inspector Morse in the last book I read, "The Wench is Dead".
The Inspector and hospitals are no longer strangers rather ambulance rides and hospitals are becoming ever more present in Morses' life.
Needless to say Morses' drinking and smoking remain prevalent regardless of the consequences,

The Inspector once again chooses to be attracted to the most undesirable women, Is it that he empathizes with their circumstances or is he just hell bent on having a miserable social life Your guess is as good as mine.


After those few chosen words on Morse, . . now onto the story. The mystery focuses onmurders, The first being Dr. McClure a professor at Wolsey college in Oxford, Morse and Lewis are inevitably onto the suspected murderer which was not a difficult choice, Then that very same suspect is himself murdered, Three personalities dance around in Morses' head as he and Lewis try their darnedest to deduct motives for theND murder.


Be careful not to glance over any pages in an Inspector Morse amp Lewis book, "The Daughters of Cain" is no exception to that rule, Clues come and go in a flash and if not read slowly and with insight, you too may need to go back over what you've missed.
The last several chapters seem to tie the ends together, . . all for me except one,
Yes, there is one loose end that the author schemingly leaves out or leaves for our imagination, That thread may go one way or the other, You may come across the very thread I'm speaking of or you may have passed over it completely, But that thread is not explained clearly away,

Another must read for Inspector Morse amp Lewis fans and anyone else just starting on Morse,

Read by . Terrence Hardiman
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Description: Inspector Morse is up against a baffling murder inherited from a colleague who left the bloodied trail cold and unsolved.
Morse along with his faithful, long suffering Sergeant Lewis must pick up the tangled threads and make some sense out of the sensless.
An Oxford Professor has been brutally stabbed to death and the trail leads to the brutal college handiman who may or may not have been dealing drugs.
When the prime suspect vanishes, Morse is left to sort out an overabundance of suspects including the brutal handiman's wife, abused stepdaughter prostitute and an Oxford School Teacher.
Dexter's chapter openings of quotes and aphorisms add to the enjoyment as the reader tries to find the thread which leads to the next clue which wraps up the conclusion is a very fullfilling climax.


This is the one with the delightfully gross Ellie, Best line was about the anagram of 'courtesan' equating to 'a sore, '

Loved this one,

Last Bus to Woodstock Inspector Morse,
Last Seen Wearing Inspector Morse,
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Inspector Morse,
Service of All the Dead Inspector Morse,
The Dead of Jericho Inspector Morse,
The Riddle of the Third Mile Inspector Morse,
The Secret of AnnexeInspector Morse
The Wench Is Dead Inspector Morse,
The Jewel That Was Ours Inspector Morse,
The Way Through The Woods Inspector Morse,
The Daughters of Cain Inspector Morse,
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories As a fan of the TV series starring John Thaw I had hoped to enjoy this novel more than I did.
I realised after buying it that it is late in the set of novels and therefore Morse is in decline, accelerating the process by being unable to give up smoking and drinking despite having to spend a few days in hospital due to an exacerbated chest infection.
The plot is rather convoluted featuring two murders, one leading on from another, and with one of the victims being so unlikeable that you end up rooting for the murderers to get away with it.


Structurally the author's erudition is on display with apposite quotations heading up each of the chapters, I found the old style of narrative where there is an omniscient author who occasionally intrudes very obviously into the text, together with the constant head hopping whereby we are told what every character in a scene is thinking, rather off putting.
Also

Morse is made rather unlikeable himself in this novel with even Lewis looking askance at him at one point.
Afterwards I viewed the TV adaptation and found it had been considerably streamlined and the whole subplot of Morse's ill health and decline towards a projected retirement in a couple of years omitted.
Of course there are a lot more episodes than novels so the character could not be killed off so quickly on TV.
On the whole though, some of the more questionable and unconvincing parts of the novel such as Morse's reciprocated and unrequited love with the prostitute daughter of one character were well advisedly excised from the TV version with no loss as far as I was concerned.
All in all, I would rate this atstars, Heres a paradox a Colin Dexter kind of word: while I enjoyed each occasion that I picked up this novel, I didnt think it was so good, as a whole.


Naturally, the MorseLewis exchanges were like eavesdropping upon two old friends, at once amusing and exasperating but of course interpretation of their dialogue is so heavily informed by familiarity with the onscreen characters.


Indeed, the explanation for my discontent lies, I suspect, in the timing The Daughters of Cain was publishedyears after the TV series began.
And, actually, I feel Colin Dexter has rather written a screenplay there are seventy chapters, for heavens sake, most of them just a couple of pages long.


The ensuing disjointedness is amplified by the epigraphs that introduce each chapter apposite and informative though they are it is like reading a book that is continually interrupted by commercial breaks not really like a book at all.


And then in literary contrast to the epigraphs, the author mirror, mirror on the wall, perhaps the most erudite of them all sinks out of his depth when descending to describe the lower classes: the mores, vernacular and accents are most unconvincing, know what I mean, Guv

The plot is peculiar remarkably linear with the chief suspects spotlighted at an early stage, and the denouement merely an exposition of how the crime was implausibly, I felt constructed.


There is a further paradox in the telling of the tale the omniscient narrator jumps from head to head, sometimes within the same scene a rather lazy device, I always believe inexplicably revealing some thoughts and withholding others.


And finally, there is one totally improbable and apparently gratuitous romantic liaison the less said about which, the better.

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