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So, *why* Adele Cecil?

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@van-der-woude-00.myweb.nl H. van der Woude

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Mar 15, 2001, 8:40:01 AM3/15/01
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The last three episodes of the Morse TV-series (Death is now my Neighbour, The Wench is Dead and The Remorseful Day) belong more or less together, maybe due to the fact that Adèle Cecil plays a part in it. This is far more less the case in the Morse novels, mind you. In the novel Death is now my Neighbour, Morse falls in love (and has a relation) with someone who is not present at all in the film! In the novel The Wench is Dead there is no appearance of Miss Cecil at all (at the end he starts a short sexual relation with yet another woman) and I can't recall having read Adèle's name in the novel The Remorseful Day (in which novel he has a brief -and last!- relation with again another woman).
I do not want to spoil the fun of the readers who still wish to read these novels (they are different from the televison versions), so I won't give away anymore details.
I suppose the filmmakers added Miss Cecil's character in the last to films to give the series a sort of continuation, which actually isn't there! The 'staying' of Adèle Cecil and eventually her absence (her 'fading' in The Remorseful Day) add perhaps more to the lonelyness of Morse while dying.

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| Thanks to everyone for answering the "who" question. ;-)
|
| Soooooo, does anyone have any opinions on why Morse
| chose her to be his beneficiary, instead of any of the
| many other requited and unrequited loves he's had in
| the past? Was he much much much more in love with this
| particular woman than he had been with any of the others,
| or did she just happen to be the most *recent* love
| of his life at the time he was writing his will?

pam

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Mar 15, 2001, 7:25:09 AM3/15/01
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Geri

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Mar 15, 2001, 3:12:58 PM3/15/01
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And also - didn't Morse feel some guilt regarding Adele's husband's death?

Geri


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The last three episodes of the Morse TV-series (Death is now my Neighbour,
The Wench is Dead and The Remorseful Day) belong more or less together,

maybe due to the fact that Adčle Cecil plays a part in it. This is far more


less the case in the Morse novels, mind you. In the novel Death is now my
Neighbour, Morse falls in love (and has a relation) with someone who is not
present at all in the film! In the novel The Wench is Dead there is no
appearance of Miss Cecil at all (at the end he starts a short sexual

relation with yet another woman) and I can't recall having read Adčle's name


in the novel The Remorseful Day (in which novel he has a brief -and last!-
relation with again another woman).
I do not want to spoil the fun of the readers who still wish to read these
novels (they are different from the televison versions), so I won't give
away anymore details.
I suppose the filmmakers added Miss Cecil's character in the last to films
to give the series a sort of continuation, which actually isn't there! The

'staying' of Adčle Cecil and eventually her absence (her 'fading' in The

@van-der-woude-00.myweb.nl H. van der Woude

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Mar 18, 2001, 1:33:12 PM3/18/01
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To feel guilt regarding one's husband there must be a husband in the first place! I can't remember having read or seen that Adèle was married. There might have been a husband once and there certainly have been one or two relations in connection with Miss Cecil, so you can't call her a spinster, but when morse met her, she was single!

Herman van der Woude
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| And also - didn't Morse feel some guilt regarding Adele's husband's death?
|
| Geri
|
|
| "H. van der Woude" <herman @ van-der-woude-00.myweb.nl> wrote in message
| news:98qgst$qcb$1...@cyan.nl.gxn.net...
| The last three episodes of the Morse TV-series (Death is now my Neighbour,
| The Wench is Dead and The Remorseful Day) belong more or less together,

| maybe due to the fact that Adèle Cecil plays a part in it. This is far more


| less the case in the Morse novels, mind you. In the novel Death is now my
| Neighbour, Morse falls in love (and has a relation) with someone who is not
| present at all in the film! In the novel The Wench is Dead there is no
| appearance of Miss Cecil at all (at the end he starts a short sexual

| relation with yet another woman) and I can't recall having read Adèle's name


| in the novel The Remorseful Day (in which novel he has a brief -and last!-
| relation with again another woman).
| I do not want to spoil the fun of the readers who still wish to read these
| novels (they are different from the televison versions), so I won't give
| away anymore details.
| I suppose the filmmakers added Miss Cecil's character in the last to films
| to give the series a sort of continuation, which actually isn't there! The

| 'staying' of Adèle Cecil and eventually her absence (her 'fading' in The

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