Maurice Phillips
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Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis...
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Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.
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Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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Following a long campaign protesting her innocence, Cissy Kohler has been released from jail after serving 35 years for murder. Now Dalziel finds himself under investigation for her wrongful conviction. To save his reputation Dalziel decides to re-investigate the murder from 1963 and finds that it may have been a case of national security rather than a crime of passion.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
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When Dalziel pays a visit to an old friend, Stella Moon, the landlady of a quiet village pub, he's shocked to find himself at the centre of an armed siege involving Stella's husband, a Falklands veteran. It's not long before armed police surround the pub, but Pascoe has little confidence in the officer in charge. He'd be a lot less happy if he knew Dalziel was one of the hostages.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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Peter Pascoe and Ellie Soper finally take the plunge and get married, so Dalziel decides to have a holiday of his own. That is until the son of his hostess goes missing and the discovery of a body in the lake. It's all left down to Dalziel to solve the pr
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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When a young man, Zack, is found dead at a rave club, Dalziel and Pascoe are under pressure to find out who was the dealer of the drugs that killed him. When the drugs themselves turn out to have been laced with poison, Dalziel and Pascoe start to scrutinize Zack's social circle as they search for possible suspects. Is it blackmail, drugs or just plain old sexual jealousy that holds the key to Zack's death?
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the kind of case that even hardened coppers dread - the murder of an eight-year-old girl. The murder brings back vivid memories for Dalziel as fifteen years earlier he headed an investigation into the disappearance of another young girl from the same village - Mary, the daughter of Chloe and Walter Wulfstan. The killer was never found.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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When rugby union star, Sam Connon's wife is found murdered at her Yorkshire home, everyone at Wetherton Rugby Club is under suspicion. Dalziel, himself a club member, is sent in to investigate. The plot thickens when Dalziel learns that Sam's wife Mary wa
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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When the skeleton of a college principle who died five years before in Austria is found under her own memorial, Dalziel and Pascoe are called in. And when a second body turns up, an air of suspicion descends upon the campus as a world of academic rivalry