Dead of Jericho (Pan Crime) [Paperback]

Colin Dexter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 1983 | Series: Pan Crime

Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit. Inspector Morse turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on Wednesday afternoon. He hadn't planned a second visit, but was back the same day as officer in charge of a suicide investigation.

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'The writing is highly intelligent, the atomosphere metancholy, the effect haunting' DAILY TELEGRAPH --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."

--The New York Times Book Review



He meets her at a suburban party. They share a flirtation over their red wine . . . and he doesn't see her again. It's the old familiar story for Morse. Then one day he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home--and Morse should know since her door is unlocked and he takes a quick look inside. Only later does Morse learn that the lady was at home, just not alive. The jury's verdict at the inquest is death by suicide. But that doesn't sit right with Morse, and he embarks on his own investigation into the tangled private life of a lovely woman, all the while feeling his own remorse of what might have been. . . .



"You don't really know Morse until you've read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter's novels."

--Chicago Sun-Times



"A masterful crime writer whom few others match."

--Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pan Books Ltd (March 11, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751525324
• ISBN-13: 978-0330266932
• ASIN: 0330266934
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,867,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Put Colin Dexter on your Must Read Series List!, November 8, 2004

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series is a must read for mystery fans. Notice that I say the series, not just a specific book. They are all equally good and each one is unique in it's mystery and puzzle. In this book a woman that Morse had met at a banquet is found hanging in her kitchen. Did she commit suicide or was she helped. Morse needs to find out because the woman had left an impression on him six months before at the banquet. By the time the reader gets to the end of the book there is another death that is most certainly a murder in the Jericho section of Oxford (in fact next door to where the woman was found). Morse knows that the two deaths are connected, but what a convoluted puzzle for him to figure out. Everyone involved is lying and that doesn't make it any easier for him, but the irascible Morse figures it out in the end. These books are extremely well-written, and a real joy to read since they are so well-written. The plots are always extremely clever, and they keep you guessing right until the end.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, December 1, 2011

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JSmalls - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is by far the best Morse book. It contains all of Dexter's classic elements -- Morse's brilliant mind, his drinking, his limited lady skills -- and inserts them into a classic storyline to create a perfect mystery. This is detective fiction at its finest.

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspector Morse: The Blind Leading the Blind?, April 16, 2011

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John F. Rooney - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

"The Dead of Jericho" (1981) has Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse once again faced with another of his brain-numbing mysteries. The final improbable and convoluted solution will probably puzzle and confound readers to a point of despair. This one involves two sets of brothers, a peeping Tom, marital infidelity, a suicide, blackmail, crucial letters, coincidental car fatalities, and a bucket of red herrings.
At a party fifty-year-old Morse, always a lonely man seeking female companionship meets a woman, Anne Scott, whom he likes, a mature woman younger than he. Forever putting off things, Morse looks her up six months later on the very day that the woman has committed suicide. Morse gets assigned to the case much later.
For the first 125 pages Sergeant Lewis is out of the picture, but during the investigation stages Morse turns on faithful Lewis and treats him very shabbily. Lewis calls it a carpeting when he's being chewed out. Lewis takes it, and short-tempered Morse quickly changes tack and even compliments his dogsbody assistant. Lewis worships his boss and considers him a near-genius. But why does such a brilliant guy go off on such wild goose chases? He thinks his mind is keener after a few pints. There's enough wit and humor in an Inspector Morse mystery to keep readers chuckling.