Death is Now My Neighbour

<p><b><i>Death is Now My Neighbour</i></b> <b>is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter&rsquo;s Oxford-set detective series.</b><br><br><i>As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. </i><br><i>&lsquo;You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens &ndash; the dead woman&rsquo;s next-door neighbour.' </i><br><i>&lsquo;Death is always the next-door neighbour,&rsquo; said Morse sombrely. </i><br><br>The murder of a young woman, a cryptic &lsquo;seventeenth-century&rsquo; love poem, and a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man is more than enough to set Chief Inspector Morse on the trail of a killer.<br><br>It&rsquo;s a trail that leads him to Lonsdale College, where the contest between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the coveted position of Master is hotting up.<br><br>But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis . . .<br><br><i>Death is Now My Neighbour</i> is followed by the thirteenth and final Inspector Morse book, <i>The Remorseful Day</i>.</p>