"It was now more than two years since Valerie Taylor, a pupil of the Roger Bacon School near Oxford, had disappeared in such mysterious circumstances; and Morse's colleagues on the force, for all their exhaustive inquiries, had discovered nothing at all. Why reopen the case now, with the clues long cold, and memories failing? And who cared anyway? Hundreds of girls ran away from home every year, and made their way to the bright lights of the big cities. No, Morse liked a body: a body that dies from unnatural causes. And very soon he got one. A man closely connected with Valerie's disappearance is found murdered, and Morse at last begins to glimpse something of the truth amidst the strange and gruesome possibilities."
002659 
Price: 3.50 USD

"In 1859, the body of a young woman was found floating in the Oxford Canal; her death led to a sensational murder trial. In 1989, Inspector Morse is recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital. Idly leafing through books in the hospital library, Morse comes across an account of the investigation. He is soon convinced that the two men hanged for the canal murder were innocent-and from the confines of his bed, sets out to prove it."
005236 
Price: 14.95 USD