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The Daughters of Cain
The Daughters of Cain
Author: Colin Dexter
After the first murder, the President of an Oxford college expressed regret, but kept his eye on the main chance. Later after a dagger had been stolen from a museum, the second murder caused no one any grief whatsoever. Morse discovers that someone has done a bad thing to achieve a good result...
ISBN: 243681
Edition: Abridged
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Publisher: MCI Spoken Word
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
Colin Dexter's books featuring Inspector Morse are brainteasers in that it isn't easy figuring out who the murderer is in this book as well as in other Inspector Morse books. For many Americans used to myteries with action every other page, this book moves too slow. I love British mysteries but even I found this book a bit slow. However, its saving grace, like many "slow moving" British novel, is the characters depicted. Many of them are so eccentric; so private and kind of snooty. (P.D.James is the queen of the nasty character...) The type of people you love to read about but would hate to meet. The plot concerns a professor at Wolsey College, Dr. Felix McClure, who has been stabbed to death. In another part of Wolsey, three women - a housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute - are playing out an unfolding drama of their own. As Morse puts his formidable thinking cap on, he sees the connection between Dr. Wolsey's murder and these 3 women at the end.
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Another good Morse mystery for fans of British novels.
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reviewed The Daughters of Cain on + 318 more book reviews
Long time since I read it, but it's an Inspector Morse story, so know I enjoyed it.
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The 11th book in the Inspector Morse series. Abridged - 2 cassettes, 3 hours. Read by James Nelson.


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