FROM CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD WINNER COLIN DEXTER

Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague.

The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead . . .

And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges . . .

PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR MORSE SERIES

"The Inspector Morse series, both the novels and the television dramas, are among the finest creations of British culture and are known and loved all over the world." Sydney Morning Herald

"Let those who lament the decline of the English detective story reach for Colin Dexter"

Guardian