The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter - ISBN: 9781035005345
Paperback
A baffling murder, too many suspects, and a disturbing love letter.

The Daughters of Cain

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    31 December 2024

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Summary

The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.

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 Nort…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035005345
ISBN-10:1035005344
Author:Colin Dexter
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Pan Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:31 December 2024
Weight:286g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 26mm
Series:Inspector Morse Mysteries
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Critics Review

Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete * The Sunday Times * No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter * The Guardian * Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives * The Times * A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives – P. D. James, The Sunday Telegraph The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * The Daily Telegraph * The triumph is the character of Morse * Times Literary Supplement * Colin Dexter’s superior crime-craft is enough to make lesser practitioners sick with envy * The Oxford Times * [Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * The New York Times Book Review *

About The Author

Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter has won many awards for his novels, including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin’s thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He died in 2017 at his home in Oxford.

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