Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact, nobody would miss most of them at all...

Dr Browne-Smith passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody has heard from him since. By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale is concerned, but not yet worried. Plenty of time to disappear, think Chief Inspector Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

As bodies begin to pile, Morse sets out on a journey through intricate and complicated history, from World War Two Egypt to present-day London, in search of answers.

The Riddle of the Third Mile is followed by the seventh Inspector Morse book, The Secret of Annexe 3.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile. Pan, ISBN: 9781035005413 (May, 2024), 288 p., £10.99.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all...

By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.

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.

Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

The Riddle of the Third Mile is followed by the seventh Inspector Morse book, The Secret of Annexe 3.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile. Pan, ISBN: 9781447299219 (April, 2016), 276 p., £8.99.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all...

By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.

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.

Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 0330451243 (March, 2007), 288 p., £6.99.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal, but he suspects it may be all that's left of an elderly Oxford don last seen boarding the London train several days before. Whatever the truth, the inspector knows it won't be simple - it never is. As he retraces Professor Browne-Smith's route through a London netherworld of topless bars and fancy bordellos, his forebodings are fulfilled. The evidence mounts; so do the bodies. So Morse downs another pint, unleashes his pit bull instincts, and solves a mystery that defies all logic.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804114889 (October, 1997), 265 p., $6.99.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile (USA 1988)

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How does an Oxlord don spell "irresistible?"
What was the venerable gent's pleasure?
A glass of whisky with a working girl?

THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE
The hideously dismembered corpse in the Oxford Canal poses a perplexing riddle for Inspector Morse. Is it that of Professor Browe-Smith, a meticulous Oxford don who vanished, leaving only a carelessly misspelled note? Apparently lured from the ivory towers of Oxford to the fleshpots of Soho by the promise of free love, Browne-Smith expected discreet sexual depravity at no charge. But he may have paid the dearest price.

Chief Inspector Morse, Homicide Division, Oxford: A lonely middle-aged bachelor with a taste for Mozart and TS. Eliot, pints of bitter -- and an obsession with attractive women. As coarse as he is cunning, at times insufferable, relentlessly inquisitive.

Colin Dexter: The Riddle of the Third Mile. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553273639 (May, 1988), 213 p., $3.95.