Read: “Last Bus to Woodstock”

It is strange that in a place like Spain, such a lover of crime fiction, which in recent decades has seen the growth of specialized collections and monographic festivals, the work of Colin Dexter (Stamford, 1930 – Oxford, 2017) has been neglected. The two-time winner of the Golden Dagger is the creator of Endeavor Morse, the Oxford inspector who, since 2012, has enjoyed an excellent television adaptation based on the policeman, one of the biggest critical and public successes in the United Kingdom, which — in nine seasons and 36 episodes — can be seen on platform Filmin. After an unconvincing attempt by Plaza & Janés, the publishing house Siruela now seems determined to take control of its peculiar universe by publishing a novel Last bus to Woodstock. The investigator’s adventures will delight the reader, seduced by his sense of humor and protagonists built from the materials of reality, yes, customers, neighbors, workers, waitresses, teachers, women and men absolutely credible, far from any pretentious glamor and elaborate characters in pursuit of empty sensationalism. The appearance of the corpse of a beautiful young woman in the courtyard of a pub in a small English town sets Morse’s extravagant and self-confident mind in motion, who finds in Sergeant Lewis the perfect opposite of the ordinary, humble, hard-working civil servant. following the rules and practices of the law, Watson. And that is that Morse fits perfectly into the British tradition that stands on Holmes and Father Brown, without going through a scenario that has already been seen a thousand times. Upside down, in his normality, the reclusive Morse – with his penchant for crossword puzzles, Wagner operas and beer – and his habitat become extraordinary. Fortunately, the second installment, last seenIt’s already in bookstores. And that is that Morse has come to stay.