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The Riddle of the Third Mile

Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 6

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The Riddle of the Third Mile

By: Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
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The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all....

By the 16th of July, the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet worried.

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.

Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

©2017 Colin Dexter (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives Detective Crime Murder

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I lost the plot! I think it became improbable rather than merely complex and after a while I’d stopped caring rather.

Excellence of the reading.

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I forgot how long ago this book was written until I listened to it. I've enjoyed Inspector Morse on TV so thought I'd try the book. I love Samuel West so I knew he'd be good but I didn't find the story particularly enthralling. That said, I'm sure I'll listen to more of the same. And, as crime writing goes, Colin Dexter can certainly hold his own.

Probably not his best

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A very interesting story. I followed it ok until the last few chapters then I got lost. Enjoy

A difficult case

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Rather more gore than I like, but intriguing, more than a little improbable. I’m always surprised Morse escapes disciplinary procedures, as he’s more outrageous than Rebus, who’s always in trouble with the high heid yins! But autres pays, autres mœurs! The Edinburgh polis presumably have stricter rules.
One good thing about Dexter is that he varies format and style (within the givens of “murder(s) >investigation>false trails>Morse gets there in the end, but Lewis does all the donkey work!”
Dexter didn’t write so many novels that he began to recycle old plots and themes, cf Christie, and the social milieu is varied, cf Sayers.
(I expect Morse would have taken me to task over punctuation in that last sentence!)
I don’t really believe in Morse’s failure to graduate because of an unhappy student love affair. It seems too much of a rationalisation, an excuse visible through that amazing instrument, the retrospectoscope, which isn’t always well focused.
Samuel West’s narration is excellent, as usual, no comic music hall accents- which drive those who speak with the genuine version to stamp on their phones in despair. It takes a really good actor to manage Welsh, Scots, London, Lancashire,etc.,convincingly and unemphatically.
He performs well, without turning the whole thing into an amateur dramatics melodrama, which some lesser narrators are wont to do. (Italian language audiobooks worst offenders.)

A touch of the Gothic

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excellent! as alway, and very well narrated. look forward to listening to other morse books

the riddle of the thitd mile

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Amazing narration. This is one of the reasons I’m working my way thru them all. Writing is inspired too

Narrated perfectly

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Excellent, listened all night. The story was refreshingly different although the reader didnot get Morse

Morse

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Very complicated story . Many twists and turns and had to go back several times to check what I had missed. Narration by Samuel West as always excellent and probably worth a listen as much for this as the story. Think seeing this may be better than listening but still enjoyable.

Need to stay alert

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Brilliant narrator - just right for the story - excellent voices especially Morse and Lewis - nuanced and convincing

Great writing style - absorbing

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I would love Samuel West to narrate a lot more books, He is a joy to listen to, and he is being used far too little.

It's a draw between the story and the narrator.

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