The Way Through the Woods von Dexter, Colin

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...

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...

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....

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...

Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague.The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf,...

"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."--The New York Times Book ReviewInspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal, but he...

Quietly, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: 'Christ knows why, Lewis, but Morse will always put himself out for you.' As he put the phone down, Lewis knew that Strange had been right . . . in the case of the Swedish Maiden,...

"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle."THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBEThe case seems so simple, Inspector Morse deemed it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's...

Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present...

"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot." --The New York Times Book Review"YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW MORSE UNTIL YOU'VE READ HIM. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw...

Inspector Morse genießt seinen wohlverdienten (und eigentlich nicht besonders erquicklichen) Urlaub in Dorset, als er auf einen seltsamen Brief in der Times stößt. Ein Jahr zuvor war eine schwedische Studentin in Oxfordshire...