Colin Dexter

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....

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 a murder inquiry in a festive hotel had a certain appeal....

These five dazzling short stories about the world's most popular fictional detective will tantalize all lovers of classic crime fiction....

After the death of Sylvia Kaye, Inspector Morse informs the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault, and rape....

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

Teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold - until two years, three months, and two days later, when somebody decided to supply some surprising new evidence....

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

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

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....

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

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

Chief Superintendent Strange's opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat....

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