by Colin Dexter.
I love watching old Inspector Morse shows on PBS, so this week I decided to finally read the book that started it all: The Last Bus to Woodstock. This is the very first Inspector Morse mystery.
The story starts when 2 girls who obviously know each other can't figure out the bus schedule so they decide to hitch a ride to Woodstock. They're last seen climbing into a red car. Several hours later, one of these girls is found murdered in the back of a pub parking lot.
Inspector Morse and his new partner Lewis have to filter through all the statements of witnesses to the hitch hiking, discover who is lying, what they're lying about, and why. This isn't your typical Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot mystery where all the clues are presented at the beginning. Instead you find things out as you go along, but by the end the reader does know as much as Lewis and Morse and so has the same opportunity to solve the puzzle as they do.
1 comment:
Hmm. I haven't read many mysteries, but I do like it that the reader gets the same clues. I hate it when the author pulls out a big gun at the end and there was NO WAY for you to have figured it out yourself. So insulting to my intelligence! Anyway, maybe I'll give this one a shot since it's written smartly.
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