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Colin Dexter
Full Series List in Order
An Inspector Morse Mystery
1 - Last Bus to Woodstock (Jun-1975)2 - Last Seen Wearing (May-1976)
3 - Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Jul-1977)
4 - Service of All the Dead (Jan-1980)
5 - The Dead of Jericho (Oct-1981)
6 - The Riddle of the Third Mile (Feb-1984)
7 - The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986)
8 - The Wench Is Dead (1989)
9 - The Jewel That Was Ours (1991)
10 - The Way Through the Woods (1992)
11 - The Daughters of Cain (1994)
12 - Death Is Now My Neighbor (Jun-1996)
13 - The Remorseful Day (Feb-2000)
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (Nov-1993)
The Ghost in the Machine (Jan-1999)
Deceived by Flight (Feb-1999)
Masonic Mysteries (Feb-1999)
Book List in Order: 20 titles
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Last Bus to Woodstock
- Jun-1975
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Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But ...
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Last Seen Wearing
- May-1976
- / Police Procedural
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How does a dead girl write? Her boyfriend lie? A policeman die? LAST SEEN WEARING More than two years ago, Valerie Taylor, a seventeen-year-old pupil at the Roger Bacon School, near Oxford, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Inspector ...
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Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
- Jul-1977
- / Police Procedural
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Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations Board at Oxford, which designs tests for students of English around the world. But when someone slips cyanide into Nicholas's sherry, Inspector Morse ha...
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Service of All the Dead
- Jan-1980
- / Law Enforcement
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CHURCHWARDEN MURDERED DURING SERVICE ... screamed the headlines. But Inspector Morse found there was more to it than the headlines. Two bodies more, for a start. After the second death, the case was closed. Everyone agreed the murderer had commit...
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The Dead of Jericho
- Oct-1981
- / Police Procedural
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He meets her at a suburban party. They share a flirtation over their red wine... and he doesn't see her again. It's the old familiar story for Morse. Then one clay he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home--and Morse sho...
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The Riddle of the Third Mile
- Feb-1984
- / Law Enforcement
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How does an Oxford don spell "irresistible?" What was the venerable gent's pleasure? A glass of whisky with a working girl? THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE The hideously dismembered corpse in the Oxford Canal poses a perplexing riddle for Inspector ...
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The Secret of Annexe 3
- 1986
- / Law Enforcement
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WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO A HOTEL ROOM? AN AMOROUS STRANGER? A DANGEROUS LOVER? A West Indian Rastafarian costume won him first place at the Haworth Hotel's New Year's Eve ball. But when his body is found in Room 3 of the hotel's annexe, no one knows h...
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The Wench Is Dead
- 1989
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Who lies in the grave? An innocent victim? A shoeless temptress? THE WENCH IS DEAD Confined to his hospital bed with a temperamental ulcer, an impatient Inspector Morse sees his slow recuperation as a tedious prison term at best. Until he cracks ...
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The Jewel That Was Ours
- 1991
- / Law Enforcement
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The case seems so simple, 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 handbag, which contained the Wolverco...
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The Way Through the Woods
- 1992
- / Police Procedural
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Morse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in The Times. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, y...
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Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
- Nov-1993
- / Police Procedural
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In short mysteries so brilliantly plotted they'll confound the cleverest of souls, Inspector Morse remains as patient as a cat at a mouse hole in the face of even the most resourceful evildoers. Muldoon, for instance, the one-legged bomber with one f...
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The Daughters of Cain
- 1994
- / Police Procedural
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It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary--invariably dramatic--discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go a...
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Death Is Now My Neighbor
- Jun-1996
- / Police Procedural
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Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior don...
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The Remorseful Day
- Feb-2000
- / Police Procedural
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For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputation as a women of adventuresome sexual tastes. The c...
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The Double Crossing
- 2003
- / Mystery
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'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
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The Other Half
- Jun-2016
- / Mystery
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From the author of the Inspector Morse series, a short story about a freelance investigator and what should be a simple case. Mrs. Isobel Rodgers is an investigator's perfect client: beautiful, wealthy, and offering a straightfoward assignment. Mrs. ...