London: Macmillan, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Not Priced-clipped. Series; An Inspector Morse mystery. Physical description; 296 p. : maps. Summary; On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse has decided to go without newspapers. But in the hotel he finds himself seated opposite a woman reading her paper, and Morse cannot help but notice an intriguing headline. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Subjects; Missing persons - England - Oxfordshire - Fiction. Police - England - Oxfordshire - Fiction. Murder - Investigation - England - Oxfordshire - Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Morse, Inspector (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Police - England - Oxford - Fiction. Oxford (England) - Fiction. Crime & mystery. English fiction ; 20th century. Genres; Detective and mystery stories. Illustrated. Novel.

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The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel received Gold Dagger Award in 1992.

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On Mar 5 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:

Midway through this book, I nearly called it quits because I remembered who dunnit. It finally dawned on me that I had seen this Inspector Morse mystery--probably two or three times--on my local PBS channel. But although I knew the who, I couldn't exactly recall the why or how, so on I plowed. I had originally picked up this book to see if Dexter's portrait of Morse and his junior partner Lewis squared with the characters as portrayed by John Thaw and Kevin Whateley. I was not disappointed. It was like a reunion with old friends as I followed Morse from a fortnight's vacation through a thoughtful assessment of the clues regarding a beautiful Swedish girl who had gone missing in the Oxford area the previous year. I found myself marveling at Dexter's ability to provide both subtle clues to the solving of the mystery alongside clever red herrings. I realized, too, what a skillful job Thaw and Whateley had done in faithful recreating the solitary, beer swilling, crossword genius Morse and his sweet-natured, Morse-respecting sidekick Lewis, as well as familiar minor characters such as Morse’s boss, Strange, and the pathologist, Dr. Laura Hobson.

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Bookseller: MW Books Ltd. (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 227486
Title: The way through the woods
Author: Dexter, Colin (1930-)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0333583736
ISBN 13: 9780333583739
Publisher: London: Macmillan
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1992

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