Best Colin Dexter
The Dead of Jericho is a 1981 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis. Morse becomes interested in Anne Scott, a woman he meets at a party in Oxford's Jericho district, and later investigates after she is found dead in circumstances initially treated as suicide....
The Way Through the Woods is a 1992 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis. While away from active duty, Morse becomes absorbed in the unresolved disappearance of a young Swedish woman who vanished near Wytham Woods outside Oxford. An enigmatic poem published in...
The Wench Is Dead is a 1989 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse. Confined to a hospital in Oxford, Morse reads an account of a woman murdered aboard a canal boat in the nineteenth century and becomes convinced that the men convicted of the crime were innocent. He investigates t...
The Remorseful Day is a 1999 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the final book in the Inspector Morse series. Set in Oxford, it follows the physically declining Morse as he returns to the unsolved murder of nurse Yvonne Harrison, despite uncertainty among his colleagues about his motives and health...
Service of All the Dead is a 1979 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the fourth book in the Inspector Morse series. The investigation concerns a succession of deaths associated with St Frideswide's, a fictional parish church in Oxford, where Morse suspects that apparently separate incidents conceal...
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a 1977 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the third book featuring Oxford police inspector Endeavour Morse. Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate the poisoning of Nicholas Quinn, a deaf examinations officer employed by a body responsible for overseas academic ex...
Death Is Now My Neighbour is a 1996 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the twelfth book in the Inspector Morse series. Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate the apparently motiveless shooting of a woman in an Oxford suburb, followed by another killing nearby. The criminal inquiry develops alongside...
The Daughters of Cain is a 1994 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the eleventh book in the Inspector Morse series. Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate the fatal stabbing of Felix McClure, a retired Oxford academic, and encounter connections among his family, colleagues, and a former student. The...
Last Bus to Woodstock is a 1975 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the first book featuring Oxford police detective Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis. The case begins when a young woman is found murdered in the car park of a pub after she and a companion had waited for a bus to Woodstock. Morse's...
