The Way Through the Woods
They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford.
Twelve months later the case remains unsolved - pending further developments - at Thames Valley CID.
On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalising article in The Times about the missing woman. An article which lures him back towards Wytham Woods near Oxford . . .
. . . and straight into the most extraordinary murder investigation of Morse's career.
The Daughters of Cain
The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive.
When another body is found Morse suddenly finds
himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution, and even finds himself thinking of retirement. Then Morse receives a letter, a letter containing a declaration of love....
Death is Now my Neighbour
The murder of a young woman . . .
A cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem . . . And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man . . .
More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer.
And it's a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up.
But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis. . .
