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When an American tourist is found dead in her Oxford hotel room, her pocketbook—containing the valuable "Wolvercote Tongue" slated for the Ashmolean Museum—vanishes. Detective Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis are summoned to uncover the truth. Shortly after, the museum’s donation acceptor is also murdered, heightening the mystery. Together, Morse and Lewis trace clues through the intrigue surrounding the artifact, exposing multiple guilty secrets as they solve the double crime.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Colin Dexter
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