{"id":12122,"date":"2019-02-05T20:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12122"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:34:50","slug":"dead-mans-walk-by-antony-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12122","title":{"rendered":"‘Dead Man’s Walk,’ by Antony James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A \u201cfan-fic\u201d novel,<\/strong> set between the end of the \u201cEndeavour\u201d TV series, and before the beginning of \u201cMorse?\u201d And written by the chairman of the Inspector Morse Society? Available free in e-book form? I was willing to take a chance on that. And all in all, I thought Dead Man’s Walk<\/a> <\/em>worked pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year is 1971, and Morse is a Detective Sergeant in the\nOxford police. A stamp dealer named Hugo Latimer is found dead next to his\ntumbled bicycle, cause of death suspicious. Shortly after, a man named Ridler\nis found murdered in a similar manner. Young detective Morse is immediately\nsuspicious, because the crime scenes are both near the Martyrs\u2019 Memorial in\nOxford, where Protestants Latimer and Ridley were famously burned at the stake.\nThis is obviously a puzzle meant for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die-hard Morse fans may find non-canonical elements here to\ncarp at \u2013 I myself only noticed a couple homonym problems, like \u201cpopulous\u201d for \u201cpopulace,\u201d\nto complain of (Morse would have been on those like a terrier on a rat). There\u2019s\nromance. There\u2019s an appreciative scene set in the Eagle & Child pub, with (laudatory)\ncomments on the Inklings. The author sometimes indulges in presenting\ntravelogues \u2013 telling us too much about the histories of places where Morse\nvisits. There\u2019s a depiction of a Christian family that seemed to me\nunsympathetic \u2013 but then Morse was an atheist, so what do I expect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also a boy named Dexter here, who wants to be a\nwriter \u2013 but it can\u2019t be author Colin Dexter, because he was an adult by this\ntime. I have no idea what that was about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found the final solution of the mystery a little disappointing, but all in all I enjoyed reading Dead Man’s Walk<\/em> quite a lot. I recommend it, especially for fans of the Colin Dexter novels and the famous TV series (plural).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A \u201cfan-fic\u201d novel, set between the end of the \u201cEndeavour\u201d TV series, and before the beginning of \u201cMorse?\u201d And written by the chairman of the Inspector Morse Society? Available free in e-book form? I was willing to take a chance on that. And all in all, I thought Dead Man’s Walk worked pretty well. The … Continue reading ‘Dead Man’s Walk,’ by Antony James<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[212,701,1305],"class_list":["post-12122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-antony-james","tag-dead-mans-walk","tag-inspector-morse"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}