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Last Seen Wearing

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Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Detective, Police Procedural, Fiction - Mystery, Police, Suspense, Women Sleuths, Mystery, Crime & mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Crime & Thriller, Traditional British, Mystery & Detective - Traditional British, Inspector (Fictitious character), Morse, Oxford (England)

SUMMARY: "Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too. "--The New York Times Book ReviewValerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body--a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he getsone. . . . "You don't really know Morse until you've read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter's novels. "--Chicago Sun-Times"Fascinating . . . Very satisfying. "--Book Sellers SUMMARY: "Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too. "--The New York Times Book ReviewValerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body--a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he getsone.

. . . "You don't really know Morse until you've read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter's novels. "--Chicago Sun-Times"Fascinating . . . Very satisfying. "--Book Sellers

LAST SEEN WEARING by Colin Dexter.

prelude

The Train Now Standing at Platform One

he felt quite pleased with himself. Difficult to tell for certain, of course; but yes, quite pleased with himself really. As accurately as it could his mind retraced the stages of the day's events: the questions of the interviewing committee -- wise and foolish; and his own answers - carefully considered and, he knew, well phrased. Two or three exchanges had been particularly satisfactory and, as he stood there waiting, a half-smile played across his firm, good-humoured lips. One he could recall almost verbatim.

"You don't think you may perhaps be a bit young for the job?'

'Well, yes. It will be a big job and I'm sure that there will be times - that is if you should appoint me - when I should need the experience and advice of older and wiser heads. ' (Several of the older and wiser heads were nodding sagely. ) 'But if my age is against me, there isn't much I can do about it, I'm afraid. I can only say that it's a fault I shall gradually grow out of. '