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Colin Dexter
Books in Order: 20 titles
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The Other Half
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. ...
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The Double Crossing
'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 Remorseful Day
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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Death Is Now My Neighbor
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 Daughters of Cain
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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Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
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 Way Through the Woods
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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The Jewel That Was Ours
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 Wench Is Dead
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 Secret of Annexe 3
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 Riddle of the Third Mile
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 Dead of Jericho
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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Service of All the Dead
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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Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
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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Last Seen Wearing
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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Last Bus to Woodstock
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 ...
