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"It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter." The great and good of the county are out in force for the annual tennis party at the Bickleighs,' though few if any have talent or enthusiasm for the game. Like many an English custom, the party exists for other reasons. Charmingly mannered infidelity is now the most popular mode of entertainment in the small but exclusive Devonshire hamlet of Wyvern's Cross. Which is why, in his own garden, diminutive host Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is fighting desperately to conceal two things on his mind. A mounting passion for Gwynyfryd Rattery. And the certain conviction that he is going to kill his wife... France Iles turned the crime novel on its head with the brilliantly gripping tale of psychological suspense. Here, for the first time in crime fiction, knowing the identity of the muderer is only the beginning.

It is only to entertain himself in the hospital that the impatient Inspector Morse opens the little book called Murder on the Oxford Canal. But so fascinating is the story it tells--of the notorious 1859 murder of Joanna Franks aboard the canal boat Barbara Bray--that not even Morse's attractive nurses can distract him from it. Was Joanna really raped and murdered by fellow passengers? Morse believes the men hanged for the crime were innocent. Now, in one of the most dazzling investigations of his career, Morse sets out to piece together the shattered past, hoping to expose the shocking truth about the Barbara Bray--and a beautiful wench who is journeying towards her death.

As a celebrated and successful artist, Monet returned to London in the early 1900s to paint his famous Thames sequence. His haunting paintings act as a backdrop to a series of grisly, psychopathic killings. Oliver Cranston, a fledgling diplomat at the Foreign Office and recent acquaintance of M. Monet, has become unwillingly involved in the police investigation into the murders. But neither man knows that the source of the horror stalks the floor above M. Monet's suite at the Savoy Hotel.

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The death of Sylvia Kaye featured dramatically in the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape. Other books featuring Morse include The Dead of Jericho.