The Daughters of Cain

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The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse's soul. Chief Superintendent Strange's opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive. Within days of taking over the case, Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of Dr Felix McClure. When another body is discovered Morse suddenly finds himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution. But then he receives a letter containing a declaration of love . . . The Daughters of Cain is followed by the twelfth Inspector Morse book, Death is Now My Neighbour.

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Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete * The Sunday Times *
No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter * The Guardian *
Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives * The Times *
A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives -- P. D. James, The Sunday Telegraph
The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * The Daily Telegraph *
The triumph is the character of Morse * Times Literary Supplement *
Colin Dexters superior crime-craft is enough to make lesser practitioners sick with envy * The Oxford Times *
[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * The New York Times Book Review *

Author Bio

Colin Dexter has won many awards for his novels, including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin's thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He died in 2017 at his home in Oxford.