Death is Now My Neighbouris the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.
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 is more than enough to set Chief Inspector Morse on the trail of a killer.
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 . . .
Death is Now My Neighbour is followed by the thirteenth and final Inspector Morse book, The Remorseful Day.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035005369
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 296 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 26 mm
Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete - The Sunday Times
No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter - The Guardian
Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives - The Times
A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives - P. D. James, The Sunday Telegraph
The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting - The 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 - The Oxford Times
[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot - The New York Times Book Review
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?
