Rating: 
Summary: Wonderfully crafted
Review: This novel demonstrates well what a wonderful wordsmith this author is. This is a superbly and imaginatively plotted work. Morse again is at his irritating worst but while his body is showing the signs of neglect his masterful mind is still at work trying to solve a compelling mystery of the previous century. This author is one of the genre's leaders.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderfully crafted
Review: This novel demonstrates well what a wonderful wordsmith this author is. This is a superbly and imaginatively plotted work. Morse again is at his irritating worst but while his body is showing the signs of neglect his masterful mind is still at work trying to solve a compelling mystery of the previous century. This author is one of the genre's leaders.
Rating: 
Summary: Shades of Josephine Tey.
Review: This series is a wonderful series, and Morse is his usual irascible and brilliant self in this book. The only reason that I couldn't give it a 5 instead of a 4 is because the book is just not as good as Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time". It's good, and the puzzle is a difficult, but appealing one, but it just doesn't come up to the standard of the earlier work. In this book Morse is in hospital with some sort of stomach problem, and he comes upon a little book written by a fellow patient about a murder on the Oxford Canal in 1859. Morse gets Lewis and a helpful librarian to do his legwork for him, and he comes to the conclusion that the two riverboat men charged with the murder of Joanna Donovan were innocent. Morse delves further into the past, and manages to figure out what happened on that fateful night 100 odd years ago. This is a really wonderful series. Dexter is an awesome writer!
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