The Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4) (Murder Ink. Mystery, #43) (Pan crime)

by Colin Dexter

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"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."
--The New York Times Book Review
This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs into the lives and unsanctified lusts of the late vicar's erring flock, the list of the dead grows longer. Not even the oddly appealing woman he finds scrubbing the church floor can compensate Morse for the trouble he's let himself in for. So he has another pint, follows his hunches, and sets out to untangle the deadly business of homicide. . . .
"A BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED DETECTIVE STORY."
--Evening Standard (London)
"WILY. . . ELEGANT."
--Observer (London)
  • ISBN10 0804114854
  • ISBN13 9780804114851
  • Publish Date 1 September 1996 (first published 18 October 1979)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 14 July 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.
  • Edition Ballantine Books ed.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 297
  • Language English