Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter’s Chief Inspector Morse - the cranky, heavy-drinking, and exasperatingly brilliant sleuth of the Thames Valley Police - has become one of the most beloved detectives in fiction....

Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play' and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles....

Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a certain appeal....

They called her the Swedish Maiden: the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford....

The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead...

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail....

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories....

Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat....

The case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice....

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since....

Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's....

After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold....

Confinato in un letto d'ospedale, Morse si lascia travolgere dal piacere della lettura. Tra le pagine di un volumetto scopre un enigma degno delle sue capacità investigative, un mistero venuto dal passato.

Experience the gripping world of Inspector Morse with the never-before-published full-cast dramatisation of Last Bus to Woodstock, the first-ever Morse novel. When a girl is murdered on the outskirts of Oxford, it takes all of Morse's patience, skill, and good humour to track down the killer...

The murder of a deaf academic in his North Oxford home is the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse....

The murder of Yvonne Harrison at her home in the Cotswold village of Lower Swinstead has left Thames Valley CID baffled....

Colin Dexter's brain-teasing whodunit unravels a complex web of deceit and betrayal in the upper echelons of Oxford academia....

They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford....

For Oxford, the arrival of 27 American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary...until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel....

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons....