Last Bus To Woodstock, Dexter - B-

                                 This is the first book in the Inspector Morse series. It was published in 1975. There was a British production of the series that appeared on Masterpiece Theatre for fourteen years beginning in 1987. I picked this book up because of a fabulous modern prequel called Endeavour, featuring 22 shows spread out over the past six years. The Morse of Endeavour is brilliant, amazingly well-read and uses his skills and Oxford education to solve crimes . He's extremely prickly and not easy to like. This book, which features the murder of a woman who missed the eponymous bus, completely lacks the charm of the tv prequel. Morse is smart but pretty much a jerk. He drinks way too much and is flat-out inappropriate with women. He closes with a flourish of deductive analysis, but I've been spoiled by the tv prequel.