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