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Death is Now My Neighbour (Inspector Morse #12) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
<i>As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. </i> <i>'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens - the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' </i> <i>'Death is always the next-door neighbour,' said Morse som ...Show more
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
'Do you think I'm wasting your time, Lewis?' Lewis was nobody's fool and was a man of some honesty and integrity. 'Yes, sir.' An engaging smile crept across Morse's mouth. He thought they could get on well together ...' The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the ...Show more
Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse #2) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine ...The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confir ...Show more
Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse #4) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Fr ...Show more
The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse #11) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be ...In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse's soul. Chief Superintendent Strange's opini ...Show more
The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse #5) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes, this way, he almost managed to forget. But not tonight ...Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit. He turned the corner of Can ...Show more
The Dead of Jericho - Inspector Morse, Book Five by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries Ser.
Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award, The Dead of Jericho is the fifth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set Inspector Morse series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometime ...Show more
The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse #9) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations ...For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary ...until one ...Show more
The Jewel That Was Ours - Inspector Morse, Book Nine by Colin Dexter
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries Ser.
The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in the Oxford-set detective series from Colin Dexter. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most ...Show more
The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse #13) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
<i>‘ Where does this all leave us, sir?’ </i> <i>‘Things are moving fast.’ </i> <i>‘We’re getting near the end, you mean?’ </i> <i>‘We were always near the end.’</i> The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the ...Show more
The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse #6) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all ...By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsd ...Show more
The Riddle of the Third Mile - Inspector Morse, Book Six by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries Ser.
The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their wh ...Show more