Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is the third novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague.When the newly-appointed and gifted member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate is murdered in his north Oxford home, so starts a formidably complicated homicide case for Chief Inspector Morse.For tracking down the killer will involve navigating the insular and labyrinthine world of Oxford colleges . . .The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is followed by the fourth Inspector Morse book, Service of All the Dead.

Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete, No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter, Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives, The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting, [Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot

Colin Dexter graduated from Cambridge University in 1953 and published his first Inspector Morse novel, Last Bus to woodstock, in 1975. Colin has 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 died in 2017 at his home in Oxford.