Colin Dexter, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1364-9
The 11th Inspector Morse mystery finds the occasionally caustic detective investigating the murder of a retired academic. (Apr.)
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Colin Dexter, Author Crown Publishers $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-609-60622-3
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...
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Colin Dexter, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-01089-8
In the British author's latest, his admirable Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate a murder committed on New Year's Eve at a hotel in Oxford. Three couples are housed in the hotel annex, and one man, winner of the prize in the fancy-dress...
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Colin Dexter, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-312-04444-2
Fans will not be disappointed in the reappearance of the irascible yet loveable Inspector Morse, the Oxford policeman who investigates the underside of his beautiful city. This time Dexter employs his lucid prose to describe a century-old murder on...
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Colin Dexter, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59444-5
One of Britain's most inventive and honored crime writers, Dexter ( The Jewel That Was Ours ) offers another tale in a justly acclaimed series. Again it's a story packed with nuance, wayward angles and bewildering layers of coincidence, all...
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Colin Dexter, Author Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-79992-5
Dexter (The Daughters of Cain) demonstrates his absolute mastery of the art of plotting in these 11 short stories, six of which feature Inspector Morse. Morse fans might fear that, by confining the Thames Valley investigator to the short form,...
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Colin Dexter, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70067-9
The Inspector Morse of A&E and PBS's Mystery fame is clever, urbane and a fairly mild curmudgeon. The Morse of Dexter's novels is far pricklier, offering sharper, more morbid pleasures. In this 11th appearance, after The Way Through the Woods, the...
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Colin Dexter, Author Crown Publishers $24 (346p) ISBN 978-0-517-70786-9
The latest Inspector Morse yarn from the redoubtable Dexter (The Way Through the Wood, etc.) might well be subtitled ""Morse Meets C.P. Snow,"" because part of the plot-about the machinations at an Oxford college to succeed the retiring Master-owes...
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