Colin Dexter

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

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

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....

Chief Inspector Morse seldom allowed himself to be caught up in New Year celebrations. So the murder inquiry in the festive hotel had a certain appeal....

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

The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead...

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

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since....

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

Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all? Find out....

The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no nearer to making an arrest....

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

The murder of a young woman... A cryptic 17th-century love poem... And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man....

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons....

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....

The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859....

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....

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

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