Colin Dexter
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The first Inspector Morse novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, appeared a quarter-century ago. This finale to a grand series presents a moving elegy to one of mystery fiction's most celebrated and popular characters. The murder of nurse Yvonne Harrington two years earlier remains unsolved, but the Oxford police receive an anonymous tip that prompts them to revive their investigation. Morse's superior, Chief Superintendent Strange, wants him to take over...
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Two Oxford dons vie to succeed the master of Lonsdale College and the result is murder. In the course of his investigation, Inspector Morse learns there are two people to whom the appointment means even more than it does to the dons--their wives. By the author of The Daughters of Cain.
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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. This work includes mysteries featuring new characters and some familiar ones, including the great Sherlock Holmes, and a royal flush of American crooks.
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Pilot Episode: It's 1965 and Detective Constable Endeavour Morse arrives in Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a missing schoolgirl. Soon he is risking all in a search for justice that will ultimately shape his destiny. Girl: DC Morse and DI Thursday investigate the sudden death a student and a string of robberies, confounding the solution to a pair of violent murders. Could Morse's future on the force be in jeopardy?.
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Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
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Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend tests his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis...
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Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sargeant James Hathaway and is trying to prove himself to his dubious new boss while rebuilding his life after the hit-and-run death of his wife.
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Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sargeant James Hathaway and is trying to prove himself to his dubious new boss while rebuilding his life after the hit-and-run death of his wife.