The Riddle of the Third Mile

Dexter, Colin

ISBN 10: 0333358120 / ISBN 13: 9780333358122

Published by Macmillan, London, 1983, first impression,, 1983

About this Item

1st edition, hardback, 224pp, ex-library, stamps on endpaper and on fore-edges, pages edges browned, otherwise sound, publisher's cloth, no external library markings, Good condition in Very Good dustwrapper ; not price-clipped. ISBN: 0333358120.

Seller Inventory # 35492

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Riddle of the Third Mile
• Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1983, first impression,
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333358120
• ISBN 13: 9780333358122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

'The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all...' By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith has passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15am on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

About the Author

Colin Dexter 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 lived in Oxford until his death in 2017.