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"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."
--The New York Times Book Review

Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations Board at Oxford, which designs tests for students of English around the world. But when someone slips cyanide into Nicholas's

sherry, Inspector Morse has a multiple-choice murder. Any one of a tight little group of academics could have killed Quinn. Before Morse is done, all their dirty little secrets will be exposed. And a murderer will be cramming for his finals. . . .

"[Dexter] is a magician with character, story construction, and the English language. . . . Colin Dexter and Morse are treasures of the genre."
--Mystery News

"It is a delight to watch this brilliant, quirky man [Morse] deduce."
--Minneapolis Star & Tribune

"Последний автобус на Вудсток" вышел в свет в 1975 г. Книга принесла автору высшую награду Ассоциации писателей детективного жанра "Золотой кинжал", а вместе с ней и широкую известность.
Зверское преступление потрясло Оксфорд. В тихом университетском городке изнасилована и убита молодая девушка. Интеллектуал и эрудит, любитель оперной музыки и старинной поэзии, обаятельный и опытный инспектор Морс начинает распутывать непростое дело, в ходе которого выясняет, что жертва вела далеко не безупречную жизнь... Разгадка сложной криминалистической задачи - лишь на последней странице романа.

Inspector Morse is not 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 will not 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.

Chief Inspector Morse is dispatched to Oxford to untangle a plot involving the death of the American who intended to donate a fabulous jewel to the Ashmolean Museum. Soon after, the professor who is hyping the receipt of the jewel is murdered, and the plot takes off on a giddy series of revelations tied to the professor's assorted drunken sprees and amorous liaisons among the Oxford elite. Unfortunately, the story seems overedited, and the reading by popular British actor Edward Woodward leaves much to be desired. Woodward plays a great Inspector Morse, and some of his other British voices are wittily done. However, every American voice sounds alike; read: Southern hick. Woodward's female voices are uniformly squeaky. Nonetheless, the story will keep listeners guessing, and Dexter is in top form. For large mystery collections.

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 ...

While recovering in hospital, Inspector Morse comes across an account of the investigation into a murder from 1849, a crime for which two people were hanged. When he is discharged he can prove that they were convicted wrongly.

Они живут такой же жизнью, как и миллионы из нас. У них много общего: они влюбляются, женятся, разводятся, заботятся о детях, а иногда опрокидывают кружку пива или стаканчик чего покрепче. И вместе с тем это абсолютно разные люди: кто-то ненавидит оружие, но обожает шахматы, а кто-то обладает феноменальной памятью. У каждого из них свои слабости, недостатки и таланты. Но все они служат в полиции, расследуют преступления под началом Мартина Бека. В романе "Человек по имени Как-его-там" Мартин Бек и его помощники пытаются понять, что может быть общего между, казалось бы, совершенно не связанными между собой преступлениями. Взрывом дома на…