Colin Dexter. Death is Now Thy Neighbour (1996) A woman is shot, by mistake as it turns out, because the killer miscounted the addresses from the back alley. The motive was a desperate desire for respectability and class, to be gained by killer’s husband achieving the Mastership of Lonsdale College. The incumbent Master, a nasty piece of self-satisfied work, fucks the wives of the candidates, promising his vote, and causing suicide and breakdown. A bleaker than usual book. Its presentation in short scenes shows that Dexter was thinking of the TV adaptation that he expected. However, the video doesn’t follow the book all that closely, which I think was a wise decision, as the video has more depth than the book. ** (2007)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Colin Dexter. Death is Now Thy Neighbour (1996)
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