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Shvoong Home>Books>Novels & Novellas>Evans Tries an O-Level Review

Evans Tries an O-Level

Book Review   by:buta     Original Author: Colin Dexter
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Evans desired to have some sort of academic qualification while he was serving imprisonment. For this he wanted to give the o-level (ordinary certificate in secondary examination) in German. So, a German teacher comes to teach him for ten months. Then he gives the examination there in his cell. A parson called McLeery is called to invigilate for the exam. The Governor him self comes to supervise security arrangements as the prisoner is very cunning and had escaped three times earlier also. The parson left with all the papers after the exam got over.

However later it was discovered that Evans had escaped in the guise of a parson. Evans had badly wounded the parson behind the prison cell. The parson tells that he knew where Evan was. So he is sent in a police van to catch Evans. But since the parson was bleeding badly he was dropped at the hospital. Later it was found that no wounded parson had visited the hospital. So now it was obvious that the parson was a fake. But now they knew that Evans did not escape in the guise of Parson but he had stayed in the prison and fooled the entire prison staff. The blood that flowed from his head was that of a pig which was brought in by McLeery. Similarly McLeery was no Parson. The real McLeery had been tied up in a room by some of Evans’s friends.

Later the governor caught him in a hotel room, handcuffed him and sent him in a prison van with prison officers. Once again Evans got the better of the governor as the prison van as well as the officers was false and a part of the master plan drafted by Evans friend.

Now he was free once again and so he was rightly called ‘Evans the Break’
Published: August 12, 2008   
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  1. Answer   Question  :    how did the hat help evan escape the prison? ( 1 Answer ) View All
  1. Answer  :    the invigilator,mc lerry, was also wearing a hat when he entered into the prison. Friday, May 10, 2013
  1. Answer   Question  :    what is the meaning of the evans last laugh View All
  1. Answer   Question  :    who was the person who was found injured in the prison cell!? ( 1 Answer ) View All
  1. Answer  :    it was evans himself! Thursday, February 28, 2013
  1. Answer   Question  :    what was the significance of the second call in the story? View All
  1. Answer   Question  :    Great View All
  1. Answer   Question  :    was mclerry a minister? ( 1 Answer ) View All
  1. Answer  :    yes Thursday, February 28, 2013
  1. Answer   Question  :    :P View All
  1. Answer   Question  :    how did Evans predicted that none of the police officers can identify him when he was pretending to be the injured invigilator View All
  1. Answer   Question  :    But how did the Governor come to know the presence of Evans in the Hotel room? ( 4 Answers ) View All
  1. Answer  :    the governor came to know the name of the hotel from the correction slip and the address of the hotel from the index number and center number mentioned Wednesday, February 27, 2013
  1. Answer  :    on the correction slip the coordinates to the hotel was mentioned and this was how they had a lead to where he was Wednesday, February 27, 2013
  1. Answer  :    The governor came to know the presence of Evans in the hotel with the help of the correction slip that Evans left deliberately to put some spanners in the works,to muddle everyone's head and at first it succeeded but at last the governor caught hold of a German word which was the name of the hotel,golden lion and the reference to one where Evans was was announced by the invigilator as 'index number-313 and center number-271'.When found in the ordnance map it landed them at Evans hiding place. Tuesday, February 26, 2013
  1. Answer  :    the Governor come to know the presence of Evans in the Hotel room by the help of that exam paper which the false Mcleery left on the table of the governor and then the governor saw the paper at back side and the governor know the german language and all the information was given that how he have to reach the hotel Monday, February 25, 2013
  1. Answer   Question  :    who was the invigilator who conducted the exam then? was he a friend of evans? ( 3 Answers ) View All
  1. Answer  :    the person who conducted the exam was a parson indeed..and was mc leery, who was'nt a friend of Evan's. Later the parson was tied and replaced by a friend of Evan's who claimed himself to be Mc leery and faked being attacked by hi, thus making a false allegation of Evans escape from the prison,though he was still present there Thursday, February 28, 2013
  1. Answer  :    the person who was to conduct the exam was a parson from the st marys Mc Leery but he was tied up in his room and one of evans took the disguise of mc leery and had come to invigilate the exam Wednesday, February 27, 2013
  1. Answer  :    yes Monday, February 25, 2013
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  1. 2. sayanth.k

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    this was very useful 4 me .so i thank u for this work u had done............

    1 Rating Sunday, November 25, 2012
  2. 1. Ratish

    Evan

    nice.......

    0 Rating Thursday, March 01, 2012
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