The Dead of Jericho
$33.35
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award, The Dead of Jericho is the fifth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set Inspector Morse series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV’s Inspector Morse.
Morse switched on the gramophone to ‘play’, and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes, this way, he almost managed to forget. But not tonight …
Anne Scott’s address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse’s smartest suit. As he turned the corne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005352 |
| Author: | Colin Dexter |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Inspector Morse Mysteries |
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Critics Review
Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete * Sunday Times *No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter – The GuardianDexter has created a giant among fictional detectives – The TimesA character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives – P. D. James * Sunday Telegraph *The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * Daily Telegraph *The triumph is the character of Morse * Times Literary Supplement *Colin Dexter’s superior crime-craft is enough to make lesser practitioners sick with envy * Oxford Times *[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Colin Dexter
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 died in 2017 at his home in Oxford.
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