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The Remorseful Day
Cover of the first edition
AuthorColin Dexter
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Morse series, #13
Genrecrime novel
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
15 September 1999
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages384p.
ISBNISBN 033376157X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
OCLC319809285
Preceded byDeath is Now My Neighbour 

The Remorseful Day is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the last novel in the Inspector Morse series.

Title

The title derives from a line in the poem "XVI - (How clear, how lovely bright)", from More Poems, by A. E. Housman, a favourite poet of Dexter's and Morse:

"Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day."

Plot

Morse tries to solve the unsolved murder of Yvonne Harrison as his health deteriorates.

Morse dies of cardiac failure at the end of the story.

Publication history

  • 1999: London: Macmillan ISBN 033376157X, Pub date 15 September 1999, Hardback

See also

  • Bishop, David, The Complete Inspector Morse: From the Original Novels to the TV Series London: Reynolds & Hearn (2006) ISBN 1905287135