The Jewel That Was Ours in Paperback format by Colin Dexter. Published by Pan in 1992. Available in Used - Very Good condition.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0330324195
ISBN-13
9780330324199
Publication Date
Jan 1992
Item Weight
0.41 pounds
Length
7.01 inch
Width
4.37 inch
Height
0.71 inch
First Sentence
The red-seal Brut Imperial Moet & Chandon stood empty on the top of the bedside table to her left; empty like the champagne glass next to it, and like the champagne glass on the table at the other side of the bed.
British author best known for the Inspector Morse mystery novels.
Colin Dexter (born September 29, 1930, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England—died March 21, 2017, Oxford) was a British author who wrote 13 acclaimed mystery novels featuring the erudite and curmudgeonly Chief Inspector Morse; the novels inspired the popular British television series Inspector Morse (1987–2000) and two spin-off series.
Dexter earned (1953) a bachelor’s degree and (1958) a master’s degree in classics from Christ’s College, Cambridge. He taught classics at secondary schools until his growing deafness made that impossible, and thereafter (1966–88) he worked at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, which set examinations for local secondary schools. Dexter began writing his first mystery novel to alleviate boredom on a rainy family vacation in the early 1970s.
His novels feature Morse, who is given to theorizing complex solutions to the crimes he has set out to understand, and his more practical and long-suffering partner, Detective Sgt. Lewis. The characters make their first appearance in Last Bus to Woodstock (1975). The crimes in the Inspector Morse novels are convoluted and the plots replete with misdirection.[1][1]
[1]: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colin-Dexter
