Detective Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis are working together on another case. This one involves a beautiful young woman, a Swedish student who's been missing for over a year, yet her body has never been found. All that was recovered was a rucksack and camera. Now someone has sent a letter to the local paper, in the form of a poem containing clues, imploring someone to find her body and solve this case. The police resume the investigation, which soon involves Morse and Lewis, leading them on a path that is full of unexpected twists and turns, until they finally uncover the truth and solve the case.
Book Details
Format
paperback
ISBN-10
0330328387
ISBN-13
9780330328388
Publication Date
Jan 1993
Item Weight
0.49 pounds
Length
7.01 inch
Width
4.37 inch
Height
0.75 inch
First Sentence
Morse never took his fair of holidays, so he told himself.
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
