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282 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
Something had galvanized the Inspector into new life. But it wasn’t the gay, rumbustious Morse of the early days of the case. Something grim had come over him and Lewis found him a little frightening sometimes. He only hoped they got no more letters upon which Morse could practise his misdirected ingenuity.
He thought of the saddest line of poetry he had ever read: Not a line of her writing have I, not a thread of her hair and felt no better for the thought. - Morse thinks of Thomas Hardy's poem "Thoughts of Phena at news of her death."