D eath is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.

D eath is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.

• As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun.*

• ‘You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens – the dead woman’s next-door neighbour.'*

• ‘Death is always the next-door neighbour,’ said Morse sombrely.*

The murder of a young woman, a cryptic ‘seventeenth-century’ love poem, and a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man is more than enough to set Chief Inspector Morse on the trail of a killer.

It’s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up.

But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .