Last Bus to Woodstock
by Colin Dexter
“He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.” ― Colin Dexter, Last Bus to Woodstock
Inspector Endeavor Morse and Sergeant Lewis made their iconic debuts in Colin Dexter's Last Bus to Woodstock (1975), which established the cerebral, convoluted model that characterized contemporary British police procedures.
Two young ladies are waiting at a bus stop in Oxford on a wet nite at the beginning of the story. One of them, Sylvia Kaye, decides to hitchhike to Woodstock and is later brutally murdered and found dead behind a pub. The case is given to Inspector Morse and his meticulous partner, Sergeant Lewis. Morse must use deduction, crosswords, and astute psychological insight to navigate a convoluted web of deceit, covert affairs, and contradicting testimony from the bus's driver and passengers in the absence of much tangible evidence.
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Two young ladies are waiting at a bus stop in Oxford on a wet nite at the beginning of the story. One of them, Sylvia Kaye, decides to hitchhike to Woodstock and is later brutally murdered and found dead behind a pub. The case is given to Inspector Morse and his meticulous partner, Sergeant Lewis. Morse must use deduction, crosswords, and astute psychological insight to navigate a convoluted web of deceit, covert affairs, and contradicting testimony from the bus's driver and passengers in the absence of much tangible evidence.
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