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Service of All the Dead Colin Dexter

Service of All the Dead By Colin Dexter

Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter


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Summary

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

Service of All the Dead Summary

Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter

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.

Service of All the Dead Reviews

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 *

About Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter graduated from Cambridge University in 1953 and moved to Oxford in 1966, where he lived until his death in 2017. His first novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, was published in 1975. There are now thirteen novels in the series, of which The Remorseful Day is, sadly, the last. He won many awards for his novels, including the CWA Silver Dagger twice, and the CWA Gold Dagger for The Wench is Dead and The Way Through the Woods. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature, and in 2000 was awarded the OBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List. The Inspector Morse novels have been adapted for the small screen with huge success by Carlton/Central Television, starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately. Spin-offs from Dexters much-loved novels also include the popular series, Lewis, featuring Morses former sergeant, Robbie Lewis, and Endeavour, a prequel starring the young Endeavour Morse.

Additional information

NGR9781035005437
9781035005437
1035005433
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter
New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2024-03-21
336
Winner of CWA Silver Dagger 1979 (UK)
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