Welcome back. Suspicion falls on a number of people, including fellow students, men named in her diary and some of the teachers at her school. I started with Book 1, which I enjoyed with reservations. While the James book started off well and ended boringly and disappointingly, Dexter started poorly but ended up becoming at least, different. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. At the bus stop a girl gets into conversation with him and later seduces him.
I read most of the Morse novels over 30 years ago and then followed them up by watching the Morse TV series. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? We’d love your help. However, the girl's parents receive a note, purportedly from Valerie. For one thing, there is very little I find in the least appealing or interesting about Morse. A man, later known to be Donald Phillipson, goes for an interview in Oxford for the job of headmaster of a school, later known to be the Roger Bacon Comprehensive School in Oxford. James Shroud for a Nightingale. Last seen wearing her school uniform, Valerie Taylor disappeared a little over two years ago on her way back to her school in a small town near Oxford after having eaten lunch at home. She turns out to be a girl from the school, Valerie Taylor, and a year later she goes missing.
Morse is stupid and makes so many wrong guesses you wonder why he is allowed to work.
I am not a fan of Morse. I know he is very popular, but I don't get it. I like that Lewis is older, but of a lower rank, and that Lewis grounds Morse.I like that Morse will castigate Lewis, but later apologize when he recognizes that Lewis was right.
Oh dear. And in many ways I feel similarly.I wonder if the reason I couldn't really care very much about this story is related to Morse not really caring very much about it either. Read out of order because it was just at hand.) Title: Last Seen Wearing (08 Mar 1988) 7.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Oh well. Highly sexist, oggles pornography, implicitly racist and a bit thick.
2 is about a missing persons case regarding the disappearance of Valerie Taylor, a pupil of Roger Bacon School in Oxford. Sheila was paying Baines with sexual favors every Bingo night (instead of Bingo) to keep the secret of where Valerie had ended up.
Morse and Lewis investigate the disappearance of teenager Valerie Craven who vanished some six months previously while walking home from her exclusive girls school. The plot thickens when Reginald Baines, another teacher at the school, is found murdered at his house near Oxford Station. He just has the occasional (and often unexplained) flashes of insight. However, every time he thinks he has come close to solving the case, something happens to up-end all his suppositions.Dreadful. Morse also suspects Acum’s wife, but rejects this when he discovers she is living in North Wales and does not drive. The detective working the case concluded she had run away with a man, but now that detective is dead. I read this for a goodreads group, English Mysteries Club.This is a very good book that unravels the efforts it can actually take to get to the conclusion of a mystery. Morris begins like he does with crossword puzzles or jigsaw puzzles trying to fit the pieces together, always mindful that in time, "it will come".
The case is two years old, there is no body, and Strange has ordered Inspector Morris to resolve the case, whether Morris likes it or not. I found this book a difficult reading and not enjoyable at all.Oddly I listened to and enjoyed a radio adaptation of this book a few days before reading it. That's all I ask. For that matter, the trouble to get to answers in life. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"?