The Daughters of Cain, Colin Dexter
The Daughters of Cain, Colin Dexter
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The Daughters of Cain

Author: Colin Dexter

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The police had no weapon, no suspect, and no motive. But within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr. Felix McClure, late of Woolsey College, Oxford.The trail leads to a staircase in Woolsey College and a former Scout there, one Edward Brooks, who disappears following the theft of a knife from the Pitt Rivers Museum. Then another body is discovered, and suddenly Morse finds himself with too many suspects, including Brookss wife, a prostitute, and an enigmatic schoolmistress. As Morse finds himself attracted to one of the possible killers, he may be too involved for success.

About Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter lives in Oxford. He has won many Crime Writers’ Association awards for his novels and in 1997 was presented with the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. His story “Evans Tries an O-Level” won the 1996 Macavity Award for Best Short Story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on November 26, 2024

With The Daughters of Cain, Colin Dexter has created a different mood and a different style for this eleventh "Inspector Morse" novel from 1994. It is approaching the end of the series, two before the end to be exact, which it presages at various points. We are told that, "Morse himself was now with......more

Goodreads review by James on November 13, 2016

Chief Inspector Morse's eleventh outing finds the brilliant, if unconventional, detective ailing, out of shape, and thinking about retirement and his own mortality. He'd be in a lot better health at this point if he'd only give up cigarettes and cut back on the amount of alcohol that he consumes. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on April 21, 2017

Here’s a paradox (a Colin Dexter kind of word): while I enjoyed each occasion that I picked up this novel, I didn’t think it was so good, as a whole. Naturally, the Morse-Lewis exchanges were like eavesdropping upon two old friends, at once amusing and exasperating – but of course interpretation of t......more

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