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Last Bus to Woodstock

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:54:11 +0000

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 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 Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man — facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape.But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key…

Last Seen Wearing

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:54:11 +0000

Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.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…After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold.Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie’s disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case…

The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:54:11 +0000

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 disconcertingly vague.The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead…And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges…

Service of All the Dead

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:38:11 +0000

Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective 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 galloping off to a solution.Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide’s.Most people could still remember the churchwarden’s murder. A few could still recall the murderer’s suicide. Now even the police had closed the case.Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive…