Authors: Colin Dexter
ISBN-13: 9780804119542, ISBN-10: 0804119546
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: Reprint
Colin Dexter lives in Oxford, England. He has won many awards for his novels, including the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding achievements in crime literaturethe equivalent of a lifetime achievement Edgar Award. This is the thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel.
For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her deathher naked handcuffed body left lying in bedmatched her reputation as a women of adventuresome sexual tastes. The case seemed perfect for Inspector Morse. So why has he refused to become involvedeven after anonymous hints of new evidence, even after a fresh murder? Sgt. Lewis's loyalty to his infuriating boss slowly turns to deep distress as his own investigations suggest that Mrs. Harrison was no stranger to Morse. Far from it. Never has Morse performed more brilliantly than in this final adventure, whose masterly twists and turns through the shadowy byways of passion grip us to the death. . . .
Not since Nero Wolfe has a detective of Morses's ratiocinative skills, refined tastes and tetchy temperament held court in such magisterial fashion.