Last Bus To Woodstock Emily Cockayne Oxford University Press NHD|N Hardback 2023

Last Bus To Woodstock Emily Cockayne Oxford University Press NHD|N Hardback 2023The first intriguing case in Colin Dexter's bestselling and iconic Inspector Morse mystery series.

Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited

The title references the spiritual of the same name (popularised by Paul Robeson in 1959)

And if she has resurfaced

Four women factory workers in Tokyo dream of escaping their dead-end lives

Miss Pym's invitation to lecture on psychology at the Leys Physical Training College is curtailed when a student meets a nasty accident

claims she's close to solving the mystery

albeit with a British accent

The Seven mean to use all their detective know-how to find out

she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell

from under which a shock of golden hair identifies the corpse as that of Mr Collicutt

this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French

but the lack of excitement is starting to chafe: a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone