Dexter Colin Livres

"On a beaucoup salué les demoiselles anglaises, reines du crime feutré, toutes trop bien élevées pour être honnêtes, si merveilleusement troublantes avec leur air de n'y pas toucher; aujourd'hui, c'est un Anglais qui vient nous séduire. Il ne raffole pas du thé, mais préfère la bière et le whisky. Il fait des mots croisés, lit Thomas Hardy, ne bouge pas d'Oxford et manque de candeur. Entre donc en scène l'inspecteur Morse. Colin Dexter nous offre là un personnage charmeur comme un héros victorien qui aurait oublié ses inhibitions. L'inspecteur Morse débrouille péniblement ses enquêtes et croise des dames parfois dangereuses, souvent meurtries, toujours déjantées et gracieuses. On est très bien avec l'inspecteur Morse. Un doigt - non cinq - d'alcool, des pensées un tantinet lubriques, des souvenirs de livres et l'étrangeté de la vie. Bienvenue au club des "Grands détectives" . Le Magazine littéraire."

" Subtiles au point d'en être vicieuses, les intrigues policières de Colin Dexter font penser à un mécanisme à multiples détentes, devant lequel le lecteur n'a rapidement d'autre solution que de s'en remettre entièrement à un auteur qui ne lui tend des amorces de solutions que pour les retirer presque aussi vite. ( ... ) Les romans de Dexter ne se présentent nullement comme des exercices secs et abstraits ; les personnages ont de la substance et de la présence, et les décors sont bien plantés. " Jean Bourdier, Histoire du roman policier.

Inspector Morse takes on another intriguing case in the fourth installment of Colin Dexter's detective mystery series.

This anthology features three Inspector Morse novels. In "The Way Through the Woods", a young tourist disappears in North Oxford. In "The Daughters of Cain", Morse takes over an unsolved murder. "Death Is Now My Neighbour" sees Morse on the trail of a killer.

Chief Inspector Morse investigates the theft of a jewel-encrusted antique and murder at Oxford's Randolph Hotel.

Last Bus to WoodstockThe death of Sylvia Kaye featured dramatically in the "Oxford Mail". By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of willful murder, sexual assault and rape.The Wench Is DeadWhile recovering in hospital, Inspector Morse comes across an account of the investigation into a murder from 1849, a crime for which two people were hanged. When he is discharged he can prove that they were convicted wrongly.The Jewel That Was OursWhen an American tourist is found dead of a heart attack in the posh Randolph Hotel and an irreplaceable piece of ancient jewelry is missing, Inspector Morse begins an investigation.

The Dead of Jericho is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter, the fifth novel of the Inspector Morse series, which was subsequently the first of a highly successful series of television adaptations of the novels. Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in Inspector Morse series. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the third novel in Inspector Morse series

'Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse was inspirational but infuriating, at times impossible but always brilliant, and earned his creator Colin Dexter the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger award for outstanding services to Crime Literature.' A box set of the complete collection of Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter. ISBN 978-0-330-47968-4 Morse's Greatest Mystery And Other Stories. ISBN 978-0-330-47958-5 Last Bus To Woodstock ISBN 978-0-330-47959-2 Last Seen Wearing ISBN 978-0-330-47960-8 The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn ISBN 978-0-330-47961-5 Service Of All The Dead ISBN 978-0-330-47962-2 The Dead Of Jericho ISBN 978-0-330-47963-9 The Riddle Of The Third Mile ISBN 978-0-330-47967-7 The Secret Of Annexe 3 ISBN 978-0-330-50394-5 The Wench Is Dead ISBN 978-0-330-47964-6 The Jewel That Was Ours ISBN 978-0-330-47956-1 The Way Through The Woods ISBN 978-0-330-47965-3 The Daughters Of Cain ISBN 978-0-330-47966-0 Death Is Now My Neighbour ISBN 978-0-330-47957-8 The Remorseful Day

"One of Chandler's most famous novels, this finds detective Philip Marlowe, trying to solve a murder he has stumbled on, involved with the California gambling scene and three potentially dangerous women." -- From back cover

"This omnibus brings together three of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse mysteries .... The Dead of Jericho is a town-and-gown Oxford mystery. The violent death of a peeping tom leads Chief Inspector Morse to back-track to the apparent suicide in a neighboring house of a pregnant young women. The long-suffering Lewis is dispatched in seemingly unrelated directions at Morse's behest, until the right killer is arrested .... Service of all the Dead opens with the murder of a church warden, rapidly followed by the deaths of a music master and his son. The only common element to link the deaths is the Church of St. Frideswide. Unfortunately, the case is 'cleared up' while Morse is on holiday. Fortunately, he does not accept this official fact and what follows his return from leave is his own investigation, which blows all previous theories to smithereens. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a formidable and labyrinthine puzzle in which a deaf academic is found dead in his north Oxford home. Even Morse respects the intelligence and cunning of the killer as he tries to track him down through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford colleges" -- Provided by publisher