Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter lives in Oxford. He has won many Crime Writers’ Association awards for his novels and in 1997 was presented with the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. His story “Evans Tries an O-Level” won the 1996 Macavity Award for Best Short Story.
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The Daughters of Cain
- By: Colin Dexter
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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4.02(4676 ratings)
Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The police had no weapon, no suspect, and no motive.
But within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford.
The trail leads to a staircase in Wolsey College and a former “scout” there, one Edward Brooks, who disappears following the theft of a knife from the Pitt Rivers Museum. When another body is discovered, Morse suddenly finds himself with too many suspects, including Brooks’ wife, a prostitute, and an enigmatic schoolmistress. Attracted to one of the possible killers, the chief inspector may be too involved for success.
It will take much thought, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the connection between McClure’s death and the daughters of Cain.
... Read moreThe Jewel That Was Ours
- By: Colin Dexter
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 8 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.9(2714 ratings)
An Inspector Morse Mystery
The case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford’s luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady’s handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her late husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinking—and drinking—in the hotel’s bar, certain the solution is close at hand, until conflicting stories, suspicious doings, and a real murder convince him otherwise.
... Read moreThe Other Half
- By: Colin Dexter
- Narrator: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 16 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 07, 2016
- Language: English
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3.19(29 ratings)
From the author of the Inspector Morse series, a short story about a freelance investigator and what should be a simple case.
Mrs. Isobel Rodgers is an investigator’s perfect client: beautiful, wealthy, and offering a straightfoward assignment. Mrs. Rodgers suspects her husband of an affair, and it’s up to the investigator to determine the object of Mr. Rodger’s affections. For someone with brilliant deductive powers, this should be an open-and-shut case-but Mrs. Rodgers may know more than she’s letting on.
“The Other Half” by Colin Dexter is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books’s Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!
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