Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Colin Dexter. Morse’s Greatest Mystery (1993)
Colin Dexter. Morse’s Greatest Mystery (1993) Collection of stories; there’s no indication where they were published previously, if at all. Several feature Morse and Lewis, but only a reader familiar with them can fill in the details in the skimpy sketches of characters that carry these names. There’s a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes, very well done, and a not so sly send up of Holmes and Mycroft to boot. One story is set in the USA, and involves a multiple-cross and con game, which the narrator (not quite deservedly) loses. Dexter displays a better than usual British ear for American. The puzzles are well enough conceived in most of the tales, but not so well that one doesn’t want to read the next one in hopes of getting a more satisfying snack. **½ (2003)
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