Book description
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 . . .
Colin Dexter has won many awards for his novels including the CWA
Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with
the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime
literature. Colin's thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The
Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He lives in Oxford.
