Colin Dexter

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play' and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles....

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

The murder of a young woman... A cryptic 17th-century love poem... And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man....

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

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

Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a certain appeal....