01 NOVEL Last Bus to Woodstock 1975 Colin Dexter's debut novel and the first Inspector Morse mystery, published in 1975. Detective Chief Inspector Morse of the Oxford City Poli…
224 pp › 02 NOVEL Last Seen Wearing 1976 The second Inspector Morse novel, published in 1976. Morse reopens the cold case of Valerie Taylor, a schoolgirl who vanished two years earl…
256 pp › 03 NOVEL The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn 1977 The third Inspector Morse novel, published in 1977. The deaf Nicholas Quinn is found dead shortly after joining the Oxford Foreign Examinati…
224 pp › 04 NOVEL Service of All the Dead 1979 The fourth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1979 and winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger. Morse investigates a chain o…
256 pp › 05 NOVEL The Dead of Jericho 1981 The fifth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1981 and winner of the CWA Silver Dagger. Morse becomes personally entangled in the apparent s…
208 pp › 06 NOVEL The Riddle of the Third Mile 1983 The sixth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1983. A headless, limbless body recovered from the Oxford Canal leads Morse into the disappear…
192 pp › 07 NOVEL The Secret of Annexe 3 1986 The seventh Inspector Morse novel, published in 1986. During a New Year's fancy-dress weekend at the Haworth Hotel, a guest in the makeshift…
224 pp › 08 NOVEL The Jewel That Was Ours 1991 The ninth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1991 and developed from Dexter's earlier television story 'The Wolvercote Tongue'. The theft o…
296 pp › 09 NOVEL The Wench Is Dead 1989 The eighth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1989 and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. Hospitalised with a bleeding ulcer, Morse reads an ac…
200 pp › 10 NOVEL The Way Through the Woods 1992 The tenth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1992 and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. A year after a Swedish student vanished while hitch-hi…
296 pp › 11 COLLECTION Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories 1993 A 1993 collection of eleven short stories by Colin Dexter, six of which feature Inspector Morse, including the title story, 'As Good as Gold…
256 pp › 12 NOVEL The Daughters of Cain 1994 The eleventh Inspector Morse novel, published in 1994. The murder of a retired Oxford don, stabbed in his home, leads Morse and Lewis to a m…
320 pp › 13 NOVEL Death Is Now My Neighbour 1996 The twelfth Inspector Morse novel, published in 1996. The shooting of a young woman through her kitchen window draws Morse into a vicious co…
400 pp › 14 NOVEL The Remorseful Day 1999 The thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, published in 1999. A diabetic and ailing Morse reluctantly reopens the year-old unsolved mur…
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