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Violence
Some
A murder; a suspicious death; a theft
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content — affairs among the tour group
Substance Use
Some
Morse drinks heavily throughout
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific irritation of tourists who think they understand England and the detective's need to maintain a professional face while pursuing intuitions Lewis doesn't share
What this book is about
An American tourist on a deluxe coach tour of England dies of a heart attack in Oxford shortly after her valuable Anglo-Saxon jewel — destined for the Ashmolean Museum — has been stolen. When another guest is found murdered, Inspector Morse joins the investigation. Colin Dexter's ninth Morse novel uses the American-tourists-in-England setting to examine the gap between Oxford's self-presentation and its reality, and Lewis's patience with Morse's theorizing is tested by a case that keeps producing new victims before the old ones are explained.
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ninth of the Inspector Morse series
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