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Inspector morse the remorseful day ensanguining the skies scene
The Remorseful Day is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the last novel in the Inspector Morse series.
Contents
- Inspector morse the remorseful day ensanguining the skies scene
- The remorseful day
- Title
- Plot
- Publication history
- References
The remorseful day
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 and Morse:
"Ensanguining the skiesHow heavily it diesInto the west away;Past touch and sight and soundNot further to be found,How hopeless under groundFalls the remorseful day."Plot
Morse tries to solve the unsolved murder of Yvonne Harrison, as his health deteriorates.
Harrison, a nurse, has inspired romantic attachment in Morse during an earlier (and separate) illness, and he has written to her about it. She is a sharer of her favors; recipients, including her daughter's lover, are serially suspect.
His superintendent has found Morse's letter among crime-scene evidence but has sequestered it.
Morse dies of acute myocardial infarction; his last words are "Thank Lewis for me."