The Daughters of Cain

US: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. Paperback. Good. AUDACIOUS AND AMUSING. . . MAY BE THE BEST BOOK YET IN THIS DESERVEDLY CEL EBRATED SERIES." -The Wall Street Journal It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder en quiry 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 McClur e, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three women-a housecl eaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute-are playing out a drama that has l ong been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a lit tle anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's d eath and the daughters of Cain. . . . "VERY CLEVERLY CONSTRUCTED. . . Dexter writes with an urbanity and range of reference that is all his own." -Los Angeles Times "YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW MORSE UNTIL YOU'VE READ HIM. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS'Mystery!' anthology series should welcome the deeper character develop ment in Dexter's novels." -Chicago Sun-Times "A MASTERFUL CRIME WRITER WHOM FEW OTHERS MATCH." -Publishers Weekly.