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Morse v Lewis
'Do you think she's lying, Lewis?'
'I'm not so sure now.'
'Come off it man, when you're as old as I am you'll recognise a liar a mile off!'
Lewis remained doubtful: he was by several years the older man anyway.
I'm revisiting 'Last Bus To Woodstock' right now - mainly to look at technique - but this little exchange came as quite a shock to me. Lewis the older man!
This was the first Morse novel (1975), and the tv series began in 1987.
So now it makes me want to re-read one of Colin Dexter's later books - to see if he readjusted to mirror the casting in the tv screenplays. Poetic licence and all that!
'I'm not so sure now.'
'Come off it man, when you're as old as I am you'll recognise a liar a mile off!'
Lewis remained doubtful: he was by several years the older man anyway.
I'm revisiting 'Last Bus To Woodstock' right now - mainly to look at technique - but this little exchange came as quite a shock to me. Lewis the older man!
This was the first Morse novel (1975), and the tv series began in 1987.
So now it makes me want to re-read one of Colin Dexter's later books - to see if he readjusted to mirror the casting in the tv screenplays. Poetic licence and all that!
