FROM CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD WINNER COLIN DEXTER

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 grey-haired man …

More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer.

And it’s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up.

But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis …

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