Colin Dexter

They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford....

Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's....

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories....

The case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice....

Colin Dexter’s Chief Inspector Morse - the cranky, heavy-drinking, and exasperatingly brilliant sleuth of the Thames Valley Police - has become one of the most beloved detectives in fiction....

They called her the Swedish Maiden: the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford....

Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat....

The murder of a deaf academic in his North Oxford home is the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse....

The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead...

The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no nearer to making an arrest....

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail....

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since....

Inspector Morse is in charge of a suicide investigation in which he has a personal interest....

After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold....

For Oxford, the arrival of 27 American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary...until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel....

The murder of Yvonne Harrison at her home in the Cotswold village of Lower Swinstead has left Thames Valley CID baffled....

Colin Dexter's brain-teasing whodunit unravels a complex web of deceit and betrayal in the upper echelons of Oxford academia....

Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's....

Kult-Ermittler Inspector Morse in gleich drei spannenden Fällen. Der letzte Bus nach Woodstock: Das kleine englische Städtchen Woodstock ist stolz auf seine...

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons....