Colin Dexter was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 1997 for outstanding services to crime literature.
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. Kevin Whately is well known for his role as the
long-suffering Sergeant Lewis in the incredibly popular TV series
Inspector Morse. His other television credits include Footprints in
the Snow, Dad , Peak Practice and Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
He has read many other audio books for Macmillan, which include
Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels; Death is Now My Neighbour,
The Daughters of Cain, The Wench is Dead and Morse's Greatest
Mysteries.
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.-Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, N.C.
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