Death is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)
by:
Colin Dexter (author)
Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior dons and their wives battle for a plum promotion....
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Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior dons and their wives battle for a plum promotion. Then, on the personal front, Inspector Morse receives intimations of his own mortality.And while Morse muses on life, he reveals his first name at last. . . .
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780804115728 (0804115729)
Publish date: February 28th 1998
Publisher: Ivy Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Morse (#12)
Book 12/13 and the penultimate novel in the series of murder mysteries confronted by Chief Inspector Morse of Thames Valley Police. And after the sombre tone of “The Daughters of Cain”, a more emollient and less emburdened Morse takes to the fray, centred on the race to succeed Sir Clixby Bream, ret...
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My first foray into the Inspector Morse series. I enjoyed it very much. Good use of red herrings.
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