The jewel that was ours

Colin Dexter

Ballantine Books

1993

241 páginas

8h 2m

ISBN-10: 0804109818

The case seems so simple, Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady's handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her last husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinnking - and drinking - in the hotel's bar, certain the solution is close at hand - until conflicting stories, suspicious doings, and a real murder convince him otherwise...