Synopsis
‘A giant among fictional detectives’ – The Times
Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series.
The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution.
In the quiet parish of St Frideswide’s, most people could still remember the murder of the churchwarden. A few could still recall the murderer’s suicide. Even the police closed the case.
But Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting that not everything might be so tidily put to rest. And a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive . . .
Service of All the Dead is followed by the fifth Inspector Morse book, The Dead of Jericho.
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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
“[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot”New York Times Book Review, New York Times Book Review
“Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete”The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times
