Der fast taube Nicholas Quinn wird überraschend zum Mitglied des Verbands für Auslandsprüfungen der Oxford-Universität berufen. Quinn lebt sich schnell ein in die Welt der angesehenen Professoren, der Nachmittagssitzungen mit gutem...

Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise - a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of partner, a change of attitude, a change of...

Das kleine englische Städtchen Woodstock ist stolz auf seine historischen Gebäude und die edlen Pubs, in denen angeblich schon die frühen Royals zu Gast waren. Kaum einer erliegt nicht dem Charme von altehrwürdigen Mauern und schicken...

"Audacious and amusing . . . may be the best book yet in this deservedly celebrated series."-The Wall Street JournalIt was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary-invariably...

'Do you think I'm wasting your time, Lewis?' Lewis was nobody's fool and was a man of some honesty and integrity. 'Yes, sir.' An engaging smile crept across Morse's mouth. He thought they would get on well together . . .The death of...

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...

The Way Through the Woods von Dexter, Colin

'Where does this all leave us, sir?' 'Things are moving fast.' 'We're getting near the end, you mean?' 'We were always near the end.'The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they...

That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks . . .The body of Joanna Franks...

Wie führt Inspector Morse die Kurzgeschichte einer Oxford-Absolventin zu ihrem Mörder? Was erwartet Morse und Lewis in Zimmer 231 des Randolph Hotels? Warum lässt ein Diebstahl an Weihnachten den Inspector mit untypischem Wohlwollen auf...

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...

Der Tod von Yvonne Harrison beschäftigt das Thames Valley Police Department bereits seit einem Jahr. Gefesselt und geknebelt starb sie auf ihrem eigenen Bett, und alles deutet darauf hin, dass sie sich freiwillig in diese Lage begab....