As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun.
"You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens - the dead woman's next-door neighbour."
"Death is always the next-door neighbour," said Morse sombrely.
The murder of a young woman... A cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem... And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man...
More than enough to set Chief Inspector E. Morse on the trail of a killer.
And it'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.
But then Morse faces a greater, far more personal crisis...
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