The Jewel That Was Ours
$24.49
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in the Oxford-set detective series from Colin Dexter. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV’s Inspector Morse.
He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations …
For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary … until one of their number is found dead…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005379 |
| Author: | Colin Dexter |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Inspector Morse Mysteries |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
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 *
A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives – P. D. James * Sunday Telegraph *
The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * 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 * Oxford Times *
[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * New York Times Book Review *
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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