Why read The Jewel That Was Ours?

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The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in the Oxford-set detective series from Colin Dexter, the winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award.

He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had…

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Melanie M. Jeschke

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I love watching British mystery series and am a big fan of the entire Inspector Morse series, including Lewis and Endeavor.

However, before there were these brilliant films, there was Colin Dexter’s even more brilliant writing. Oxford is itself a character in all three series, and it’s particularly fun for me to recognize familiar locations in Oxford where the scenes are filmed, just as it’s fun for me to follow along in the novel with Dexter’s characters as they walk the streets of Oxford.

The Jewel That was Ours, renamed The Wolvercote Tongue in the Inspector Morse series,…

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