Sunday 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
‘Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives’
The Times
‘The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting’
Daily Telegraph
‘Colin Dexter is the crime writer of perfect pitch and perfect pace’
Jonathan Gash
‘What construction! What skill! Why isn’t this author ever on the Booker shortlist?’
Beryl Bainbridge
‘[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot’
New York Times Book Review
‘Colin Dexter’s superior crime-craft is enough to make lesser practitioners sick with envy’
Oxford Times
‘The triumph is the character of Morse’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Superb entertainment indeed’
Yorkshire Evening Press
THE SECRET OF ANNEXE 3
COLIN DEXTER graduated from Cambridge University in 1953 and has lived in Oxford since 1966. 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.
Colin Dexter has 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 Queen’s 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 Dexter’s much-loved novels also include the popular series, Lewis, featuring Morse’s former sergeant, Robbie Lewis, and Endeavour, a prequel starring the young Endeavour Morse.
Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse Mysteries
Last Bus to Woodstock
Last Seen Wearing
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Service of All the Dead
The Dead of Jericho
The Secret of Annexe 3
The Wench Is Dead
The Jewel that Was Ours
The Way Through the Woods
The Daughters of Cain
Death Is Now My Neighbour
The Remorseful Day
Also available in Pan Books
Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
First published 1986 by Macmillan
First published in paperback 1987 by Pan Books
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