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Service of All the Dead

Colin Dexter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:21st Mar '24

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

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

Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series.

The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution.

In the quiet parish of St Frideswide's, most people could still remember the murder of the churchwarden. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Even the police closed the case.

But Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting that not everything might be so tidily put to rest. And a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive . . .

Service of All the Dead is followed by the fifth Inspector Morse book, The Dead of Jericho.

Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete * Sunday Times *
No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter * Guardian *
Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives * The Times *
The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * Daily Telegraph *
[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * New York Times Book Review *

  • Winner of CWA Silver Dagger 1979 (UK)

ISBN: 9781035005437

Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 21mm

Weight: 230g

336 pages