Колин Декстер - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

Service of all the Dead is the fourth gripping Inspector Morse novel from bestselling crime writer, Colin Dexter. 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.

Этот роман английского писателя К.Декстера об инспекторе Морсе премирован высшей наградой Ассоциации писателей детективного жанра "Золотой кинжал". Шведка Карин Эрикссон, путешествовавшая по Англии, пропала неподалеку от Оксфорда. Год спустя в полицию приходит письмо со стихами английского поэта XIX века "Найди меня" и записка "Почему меня никто не ищет?" с подписью туристки. Расшифровка анаграммы в стихах не оставляет у опытного инспектора сомнений: путь к разгадке исчезновения Карин лежит сквозь Оксфордский лес...

Сразу же после публикации в 1975 году первого детективного романа Колина Декстера (р.1930) «Последний автобус на Вудсток» его главный герой инспектор Морс безоговорочно завоевал симпатии английских читателей. С появлением очередных романов о работе полиции старинного университетского Оксфорда (а их создано уже двенадцать) слава Морса росла, увеличивая круг поклонников цикла. Рассеянный, чудаковатый Морс — непревзойденный мастер по разгадыванию кроссвордов, шарад, ребусов, любитель поиграть словами и выпить пинту-другую горького пива, полистать порнографический журнальчик и посидеть на сеансе стриптиза, человек, упорно отстаивающий свои ошибочные версии. Он — гениальный сыщик. Это признают и ближайший помощник инспектора сержант Льюис, и другие коллеги Морса. За свои романы Декстер удостоен высших наград Ассоциации писателей детективного жанра — «Золотой кинжал» и «Серебряный кинжал». А экранизацию романов, с Джоном Тоу в роли Морса, видели миллионы российских телезрителей.

В небольшом городке Вудсток, что находится в нескольких милях от Оксфорда, происходит жестокое убийство молодой девушки. Инспектор Морс из главного управления полиции Оксфорда и его помощник сержант Льюис занимаются расследованием этого дела. В ходе следствия им приходится беседовать с людьми самых разных социальных слоёв - от университетской профессуры до водителей грузовиков, медсестёр, машинисток и людей с нездоровой психикой; они сталкиваются с ложью, увёртками, замалчиванием фактов. В конце концов дело раскрыто, убийца найден и арестован, но окончание следствия не приносит радости инспектору Морсу: виновником преступления оказывается близкий человек.
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The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse. <br> Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes, this way, he almost managed to forget. But not tonight...<br> Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit. <br> He turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 3rd October. <br> He hadn't planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day - as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation...

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 ...

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.

Retold by Anne Collins.

Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the floor lies a chair, almost two metres away from the woman's feet. Chief Inspector Morse finishes his pint, and orders another. Perhaps he will visit Anne, after all. But he is in no particular hurry. Meanwhile, Anne is still hanging in her kitchen, waiting for the police to come and cut her down. She is in no hurry, either.

Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis went into the house.
Inside the sitting-room, the light was still switched on and a gas fire was burning. The dead body of a young man was lying on the carpet, in front of the fire. Near the body, on a small table, stood a bottle of sherry and a wine glass. The bottle was almost full, the glass was almost empty.
Morse smelt the sherry which was left in the glass.
"This smells like cyanide, Lewis", he said. "This man was probably poisoned".
Retold by Anne Collins.

"[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…

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.

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.

It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary-invariably dramatic-discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three womena housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute-are playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain...

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…

"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.

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…