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"For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputation as a woman of adventuresome sexual tastes. The case seemed perfect for Inspector Morse. So why ha...

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Main Author: Dexter, Colin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fawcett Books, 2001.
Edition:First Ballantine mass market edition.
Series:Dexter, Colin. Inspector Morse novel ; 13.
Subjects:
Morse, > Inspector (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > England > Oxford > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Oxford (England) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:"For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputation as a woman of adventuresome sexual tastes. The case seemed perfect for Inspector Morse. So why has he refused to become involved--even after anonymous hints of new evidence, even after a fresh murder? Sgt. Lewis's loyalty to his infuriating boss slowly turns to deep distress as his own investigations suggest that Mrs. Harrison was no stranger to Morse. Far from it. Never has Morse performed more brilliantly than in this final adventure, whose masterly twists and turns through the shadowy byways of passion grip us to the death"--Page 4 of cover.
Item Description:"The final Inspector Morse novel"--Cover.
Physical Description:318 pages ; 17 cm.
ISBN:9780804119542
0804119546
Author Notes:Norman Colin Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England on September 29, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in classics in 1953 and a master's degree in 1958 at from Christ's College, Cambridge University. He taught classics for many years, but growing deafness forced him to retire in 1966. For the next two decades, he was the senior assistant secretary at the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations. He retired in 1988 to become a full-time writer.

He was best known for creating the character Chief Inspector Morse. The Inspector Morse series began in 1975 with Last Bus to Woodstock and ended in 1999 with The Remorseful Day. The books were adapted into the television series Inspector Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000. Dexter won the British Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for The Wench is Dead in 1989 and again in 1992 for The Way Through the Woods. He received the organization's lifetime achievement award, the Diamond Dagger, in 1997. He also wrote Cracking Cryptic Crosswords: A Guide to Solving Cryptic Crosswords in 2010. He died on March 21, 2017 at the age of 86.

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