Colin Dexter was een Engelse misdaadschrijver, bekend om zijn Inspector Morse-romans. Zijn ingewikkelde plots kenmerken zich door meesterlijk gebruik van valse aanwijzingen en misleidingen die de lezer op een dwaalspoor brengen. Morse, wiens personage Dexter's eigen voorliefde voor kruiswoordraadsels, literatuur en klassieke muziek weerspiegelt, werd een iconisch figuur in het genre. Dexter's literaire bijdragen reikten verder dan de pagina's, met succesvolle televisiebewerkingen die zijn nalatenschap als een van de toonaangevende Britse misdaadschrijvers verstevigden.
Het enige wat Inspecteur Morse van de aantrekkelijke Anne Scott weet is haar adres. Een half jaar na hun eerste ontmoeting gaat hij in een opwelling, naar haar huis in de wijk Jericho. Hoewel er 'licht brandt en de voordeur niet op slot is, blijkt er niemand thuis te zijn. Diezelfde dag keert Morse terug, nu echter als politieman om een zelfmoord te onderzoeken.
De beroemde inspecteur Morse wordt geconfronteerd met enkele raadselachtige gebeurtenissen en gaat op zoek naar het verbindend element.
Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's. Most could remember the churchwarden's murder and the suicide of the murderer. But a chance meeting reveals deception. Other Morse books include Last Seen Wearing.
This anthology features three Inspector Morse novels. In "The Way Through the Woods", a young tourist disappears in North Oxford. In "The Daughters of Cain", Morse takes over an unsolved murder. "Death Is Now My Neighbour" sees Morse on the trail of a killer.
"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 of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel. It looks like a sudden - and tragic - accident. Only Chief Inspector Morse appears not to overlook the simultaneous theft of a jewel-encrusted antique from the victim's handbag . . . Then, two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell. A coincidence? Maybe. But this time Morse is determined to prove the link . . .
Last Bus to WoodstockThe death of Sylvia Kaye featured dramatically in the "Oxford Mail". By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of willful murder, sexual assault and rape.The Wench Is DeadWhile recovering in hospital, Inspector Morse comes across an account of the investigation into a murder from 1849, a crime for which two people were hanged. When he is discharged he can prove that they were convicted wrongly.The Jewel That Was OursWhen an American tourist is found dead of a heart attack in the posh Randolph Hotel and an irreplaceable piece of ancient jewelry is missing, Inspector Morse begins an investigation.
The Dead of Jericho is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter, the fifth novel of the Inspector Morse series, which was subsequently the first of a highly successful series of television adaptations of the novels. Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in Inspector Morse series. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the third novel in Inspector Morse series
'Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse was inspirational but infuriating, at times impossible but always brilliant, and earned his creator Colin Dexter the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger award for outstanding services to Crime Literature.' A box set of the complete collection of Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter. ISBN 978-0-330-47968-4 Morse's Greatest Mystery And Other Stories. ISBN 978-0-330-47958-5 Last Bus To Woodstock ISBN 978-0-330-47959-2 Last Seen Wearing ISBN 978-0-330-47960-8 The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn ISBN 978-0-330-47961-5 Service Of All The Dead ISBN 978-0-330-47962-2 The Dead Of Jericho ISBN 978-0-330-47963-9 The Riddle Of The Third Mile ISBN 978-0-330-47967-7 The Secret Of Annexe 3 ISBN 978-0-330-50394-5 The Wench Is Dead ISBN 978-0-330-47964-6 The Jewel That Was Ours ISBN 978-0-330-47956-1 The Way Through The Woods ISBN 978-0-330-47965-3 The Daughters Of Cain ISBN 978-0-330-47966-0 Death Is Now My Neighbour ISBN 978-0-330-47957-8 The Remorseful Day
This book sees Inspector Morse lured to Wytham Woods near Oxford to search for a missing woman, and launched into the most extraordinary murder investigation of his career. Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1992.
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
