Synopsis
‘A giant among fictional detectives’ – The Times
Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.
Why now? Why Friday 12 September – two years, three months and two days after Valerie Taylor had left home to return to afternoon school?
He frowned. ‘Something’s turned up, I suppose.’
Strange nodded. ‘Yes.’
After leaving her home in Oxford to return to school in London, seventeen-year-old Valerie Taylor completely vanished. Despite the efforts of the police and Chief Inspector Ainley, the trail went cold and she was never found.
Two years on, Ainley is dead, and Inspector Morse is handed the case. But now, someone has decided to supply some surprising new evidence . . .
Last Seen Wearing is followed by the third Inspector Morse book, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.
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Reviews
“No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter”The Guardian, The Guardian
“Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives”The Times, The Times
“The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting”The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph
“[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot”New York Times Book Review, New York Times Book Review
