Colin Dexter Knihy

Dve detektívky anglického autora, odohrávajú sa v prostredí univerzitného mesta Oxford a spája ich postava inšpektora Morseho, ktorý je v súkromí náruživý pivár, krížovkár a milovník vážnej hudby (www.pitaval.cz)

Deset detektivních případů Colina Dextera, v nichž záhady neřeší pouze sám šéfinspektor Morse, ale setkáme se mimo jiné se samotným Sherlockem Holmesem, jeho stejně geniálním bratrem Mycroftem a samozřejmě s doktorem Watsonem. Jak tráví inspektor Morse vánoční svátky? Jak dovede povídka, kterou napsala oběť, policii k jejímu vrahovi?

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." --The New York Times Book Review This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs into the lives and unsanctified lusts of the late vicar's erring flock, the list of the dead grows longer. Not even the oddly appealing woman he finds scrubbing the church floor can compensate Morse for the trouble he's let himself in for. So he has another pint, follows his hunches, and sets out to untangle the deadly business of homicide. . . . "A BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED DETECTIVE STORY." --Evening Standard (London) "WILY. . . ELEGANT." --Observer (London)

The front page picture of the book is slightly different, but the contents remain the same.

V detektivní novele řeší ispektor Morse hrůzný případ, v němž není znám nejen pachatel, ale ani totožnost oběti, což vyšetřování neobyčejně komplikuje.

On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse has decided to go without newspapers. But in the hotel he finds himself seated opposite a woman reading her paper, and Morse cannot help but notice an intriguing headline. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award.

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[Read by Frederick Davidson]Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The police had no weapon, no suspect, and no motive. But within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford.The trail leads to a staircase in Wolsey College and a former ''scout'' there, one Edward Brooks, who disappears following the theft of a knife from the Pitt Rivers Museum. When another body is discovered, Morse suddenly finds himself with too many suspects, including Brooks' wife, a prostitute, and an enigmatic schoolmistress. Attracted to one of the possible killers, the chief inspector may be too involved for success.It will take much thought, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the connection between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain.

Další případ inspektora Morse, tentokrát dostane na starost dva roky starý případ ztraceného děvčete, který se ale postupem času jako obvykle pořádně zamotá.