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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesFinally, like me, he would have given his hobbies in WhoБЂ™s Who as reading the poets, crosswords, and Wagner. And what of his negative qualities? He was quite unwilling to give thanks to any of his hardworking underlings (especially Lewis) and had little or no respect for most of his superior officers. He was unorthodox, with little knowledge of police procedure and only minimal respect for forensic pathology. He was often pig-headed and impatient, a man with alpha-plus acumen, normally six furlongs ahead of the whole field during any investigation but so often running on the wrong racecourse. And has there ever been a fictional detective so desperately mean with money? On this latter point, I was encouraged by my editors to exemplify any fault rather than merely stating it. And I think that readers began to expect such exemplification in each novel. For example, in The Remorseful Day, the pair of detectives are the first customers in the bar of OxfordБЂ™s Randolph Hotel at 11:00 a.m., and LewisБЂ™s eyebrows are raised a few millimeters when, throwing the car keys to him, Morse suggests that itБЂ™s high time he, Morse, bought the drinks: a large Glenfiddich for himself and half a pint of orange juice for Lewis-only for the unfortunate barmaid to tell Morse that she cannot find sufficient change so early on for the fifty-pound note proffered ...» |
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