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Last Bus to Woodstock is the novel that began Colin Dexter's phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series.'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 s...

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Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series.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 g...

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The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series, featuring Inspector Morse.Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, ...

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Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award, The Dead of Jericho is the fifth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set Inspector Morse series.Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Som...

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The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.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 o...

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The Remorseful Day is the thirteenth and last novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.'Where does this all leave us, sir?' 'Things are moving fast.' 'We're getting near the end, you mean?' 'We were always near the end.'The murder of Yv...

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The Secret of Annexe 3 is the seventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise - a change of dress,...

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The Way Through the Woods is the tenth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.Quietly, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: 'Christ knows why, Lewis, but Morse will always put himself out for you.' As he put the phone down, L...

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Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award, The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily c...

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The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.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 the...

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The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is the third novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disco...

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Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all . . . ? How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse...

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"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." --The New York Times Book Review This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece inste...

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Chief Inspector Morse, the irascible, brilliant detective of the Thames Valley Police, returns in six tales of detection, accompanied by five self-contained mysteries ranging in setting from a prison cell to a hotel lounge in the American Midwest.

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Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis probe the baffling murder of Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford, and follow a trail that leads to Edward Brooks, who himself disappears following a museum theft.

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After meeting the attractive Anne Scott at a suburban party, Morse is astonished when she is discovered dead sometime later and is unable to accept that she committed suicide. Reprint. NYT. PW.

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Once again Oxford becomes the scene of the crime as Inspector Morse investigates a baffling case involving a mysterious disappearance, an unidentified corpse, and a brutal murder. Reprint.

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Inspector Morse investigates the murder of a guest at a New Year's Eve costume party and finds that all of the suspects seem to have vanished.

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The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. 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 ...

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The Way Through the Woods is the tenth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Quietly, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: 'Christ knows why, Lewis, but Morse will always put himself out for you.' As he put t...

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Featuring the first three books in Colin Dexter's classic crime series starring Inspector Morse: Last Bus to Woodstock, Last Seen Wearing and The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn. Last Bus to Woodstock: The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically ...

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Gunvald Larsson sits carefully observing the dingy Stockholm apartment of a man under police surveillance. He looks at his watch: nine minutes past eleven in the evening. At that same moment, the house explodes, killing at least three people. Chie...

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An Inspector Morse MysteryThe case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady's hand...

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Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The police had no weapon, no suspect, and no motive.But within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detec...

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Colin Dexter's Chief Inspector Morsethe cranky, heavy-drinking, and exasperatingly brilliant sleuth of the Thames Valley Policehas become one of the most beloved detectives in fiction. Now, with this collection of eleven short stories, we can savo...

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Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories. In Last Seen Wearing , Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old mis...

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Good Christian people, pray attendWhilst I relate to youConcerning of a murder foul, It is, alas, too true.'Twas on the 17th day of JuneThis murder it was done.They did complete the awful deedBefore the rising sun.A helpless female, much belovedWa...

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Seit Ewigkeiten ist in der verschlafenen Gemeinde St. Frideswide nichts Aufregendes mehr passiert. Jeden Sonntag pilgern die Schäfchen brav in die Kirche, werfen ein paar Pence in die Kollekte, beichten die üblichen Vergehen und lassen sich von ih...

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Das kleine englische Städtchen Woodstock ist stolz auf seine historischen Gebäude und die edlen Pubs, in denen angeblich schon die frühen Royals zu Gast waren. Kaum einer erliegt nicht dem Charme von altehrwürdigen Mauern und schicken Hotels. Doch...

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