The Remorseful Day
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Colin Dexter |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector Morse series, #13 |
| Genre | crime novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 15 September 1999 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 384p. |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-333-76157-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| OCLC | 319809285 |
| Preceded by | Death 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 0-333-76157-X, Pub date 15 September 1999, Hardback
See also
- "The Remorseful Day" The TV adaptation of the novel
Sources, references, external links
- Bishop, David, The Complete Inspector Morse: From the Original Novels to the TV Series London: Reynolds & Hearn (2006) ISBN 1-905287-13-5
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