356 p. As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens - the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death is always the next-door neighbour,' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman .A cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem .And a photograph of a mystery...
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 his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the girl he's certain was Sylvia's companion on that ill-fated September...
405 p. Valerie Taylor is presumed dead after disappearing two years ago at the age of 17. But if she is dead, who wrote a mysterious letter to her parents saying, "I am alright so don't worry"? Not only that, a body has turned up, leaving Inspector Morse to reopen the case. Morse soon finds himself in for the challenge of his career - with every new clue leading him back to...
73 p. 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 day he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home - and Morse should know since her door is unlocked and he takes a quick look inside. Only later does Morse learn that the lady was at home,...
257 p. 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, a change of make-up, a change of partner, a change of attitude, a change of life almost; and the man who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all… Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be...
334 p. Morse investigates the apparently motiveless killing of Nicholas Quinn, a deaf but gifted academic recently appointed the newest member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate. The Inspector tracks Quinn's killer through the city colleges. He comes to believe that through his ability to read lips Quinn "overheard" a conversation by two Syndicate members discussing how to...
354 p. They called her the Swedish Maiden: the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. Twelve months later, the case remained unsolved, pending further developments. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalizing article in The Times about the missing woman - an article which lures him back to...
229 p. The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859. At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989, the body of Chief Inspector Morse, though very much alive, was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful. As Morse begins his...
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