The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
Description
The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin Dexter has won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award twice for "The Way Through the Woods" and "The Wench is Dead".
‘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 case would cause to Morse’s soul.’
Chief Superintendent Strange’s opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive.
Within days of taking over the investigation Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of Dr Felix McClure. When another body is discovered Morse suddenly finds himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution, and even finds himself thinking of retirement. Then Morse receives a letter, a letter containing a declaration of love...
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
Publication year: 1995
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Pages: 295
Language: English
ISBN: 9780330341639
Dimensions: 12.07 x 1.9 x 18.42 cm
Weight: 0.22 kg