The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead. And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he...
Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of...
I woke up and it was still dark. I sat bolt upright and said, "Hey!"
"Mmf?" A sleepy form moved in the darkness next to me. "What?"
"What time is it?"
"Um. Oom." Rustling and rattling. "Twenty after five."
"Holy Christ!" I shouted,...