Book description
He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she
wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he
had been up most of the night conducting his investigations . . . For
Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of
the ordinary . . . until one of their number is found dead in Room 310
at the Randolph Hotel. It looks like a sudden - and tragic - accident.
Only Chief Inspector Morse appears not to overlook the simultaneous
theft of a jewel-encrusted antique from the victim's handbag . . . Then,
two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River
Cherwell. A coincidence? Maybe. But this time Morse is determined to
prove the link . . .
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.
