The Daughters of Cain

The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter''s Oxford-set detective series.Bizarre and bewildering – that''s what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . I ...

The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter''s Oxford-set detective series.Bizarre and bewildering – that''s what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse''s soul.Chief Superintendent Strange''s opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no