Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
Why now? Why Friday 12th 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.

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing. Pan, ISBN: 9781035005390 (March, 2024), 368 p., £10.99.

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
Last Seen Wearing is the second novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine...

The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth.

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

Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case...

Last Seen Wearing is followed by the third Inspector Morse book, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing. Pan, ISBN: 9781447299080 (April, 2016), 368 p., £8.99.

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine...

The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case...

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing. Pan, ISBN: 0330451197 (March, 2007), 222 p., £6.99.

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for each time the pieces of the jigsaw start falling into place, someone scatters them again. So Valerie remains as tantalizingly elusive as ever. Morse prefers a body - a body dead from unnatural causes. And very soon he gets one...

Colin Dexter: Last Seen Wearing. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804114919 (April, 1997), $6.99.