Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
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.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. Pan, ISBN: 9781035005437 (March, 2024), 336 p., £10.99.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective 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.

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

Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Now even the police had closed the case.

Until 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.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. Pan, ISBN: 9781447299196 (April, 2016), 324 p., £8.99.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
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. Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's. Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Now even the police had closed the case. Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive...

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 0330451219 (March, 2007), 323 p., £6.99.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime -- the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden -- fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs into the lives and unsanctified lusts of the late vicar's erring flock, the list of the dead grows longer. Not even the oddly appealing woman he finds scrubbing the church floor can compensate Morse for the trouble he's let himself in for. So he has another pint, follows his hunches, and sets out to untangle the deadly business of homicide.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804114854 (October, 1996), 297 p., $6.99.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's. Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A few could still recall the murderer's suicide. Now even the police had closed the case. Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive...

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 0330261487 (July, 1996), 323 p., £5.99.

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (USA 1988)

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Requiem for an organist?
Eternal rest in the crypt?
A free-fall from grace?
SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD
A deathknell from the churchtower. A razor-sharp crucifix. A missing choirboy.
Too many last rites these days at Oxford's Church of St. Frideswide, believes Inspector Morse. And too many secrets. Secrets in the crimson vestments of a man of the cloth, in incense smoke and discreet trysts. Morse has no interest in saving souls. Lives will do.

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

Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead. Bantam Books, ISBN: 055327239X (February, 1988), 229 p., $3.95.