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  • Last Seen Wearing

  • Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 2
  • By: Colin Dexter
  • Narrated by: Samuel West
  • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (242 ratings)
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Last Seen Wearing

By: Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
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Summary

Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated, and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine....

The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth.

After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold.

Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case....

©2017 Colin Dexter (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio

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I love Insp Morse but the language has become date

Insp Morse and Sgt Lewis are fabulous characters. But there are now moments when the dated language make me cringe.

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last Seen Wearing.

I suppose I don't like the general misogyny in his writing. The use of the word tart all the time. It sounds dated but the plots are quite fun. However it may be that Colin Dexter is reflecting the attitudes of men in the 1960s. it is after all of its time. I am not a very P. C. person. I don't tend to take unbridge or be eternally offended. So good for a gentle thriller not obsessed with gore and torture and bodies on the metal trays( or what ever they are called) in the mortuary.

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The finest fictional detective

There's nothing quite so enjoyable as a Morse. Beautifully written, intricately plotted and deftly tied up, this series is the pinnacle of the detective novel.

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Excellent narration

Would you listen to Last Seen Wearing again? Why?

The plot is good and the reader is first class

What did you like best about this story?

A very good audio book experience

Have you listened to any of Samuel West’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Lots and yes

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No! Far too long, stupid question

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No

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Great story, well read

Nice pace read in a calm and warm voice made this an easy, enjoyable listen

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can't quite belive these books are still in publication

very weak meandering story line and a rather tedious book, but more than that, I believe the author was at some point a teacher. I very much hope he was never allowed anywhere near teenage girls. One could argue that most men of his generation were misogynistic, however his irrelevant but extraordinary and childish obsession with the female anatomy and sex, makes me think he was either deeply repressed or a pervert, and my sympathy goes to any girl or woman who would have had the misfortune of meeting this unpleasant little man.

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If you are expecting the TV Morse this is not him

I was disappointed with the character of Morse in the books. Having grown up with the John Thaw character I was expecting a shy man around women, who was eradite, intellectual, intelligent, musical. Who had completed his studies at Oxford but chose the police to use his investigative powers. Instead what we get is a character who calls himself "an old leacherous man" who reads a pornographic book twice. He didn't complete his degree because of spending too much time in bed with a woman. The plots are convoluted and Morse keeps guessing half the time. Like Lewis I really got fed up with Morse just expounding his own theories and info dumping on the reader. Not the Morse I was expecting and not the level of sexual references I was expecting either. In my opinion the TV series was much tighter writing with better pace and character development. The performance and narration by Samuel West was excellent and was the only reason why I have listened to 2 books in the series. As I adore Morse I wanted to know if I had come across isolated problems for me in just one story or was it a general problem for me overall. Unfortunately it is a general problem with the character of Morse overall and I will not be purchasing the series.

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"Last Seen Wearing"

Mildly entertaining, but by no means Morse, or Colin Dexter, at their best. Rather too convoluted, with a lot of rather roughly sketched-in characters, it never really seems to get off the ground in my opinion.

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More Red Herrings …

More red herrings than a sunburnt herring hatchery.
The story is OK up to a point but … Morse’s smug “Now I know / Now I don’t” (rinse & repeat) would be enough to make Clousseau (aherm) blush.
Occasionally the narrator forgets to switch voices & Morse sounds like Lewis.
Hopefully the next book will be more satisfying.

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confused

very confusing If you have ever seen the television adaption, although it was a good story, narration was excellent

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