Based on an original story by Colin Dexter which he subsequently novelized as The Jewel That Was Ours.Ī schoolgirl, daughter of a very influential local-businessman, has been missing for six months and Morse is convinced she is dead since he's just been assigned the case. Morse suspects foul play, as a unique Anglo-Saxon artefact belonging to the victim has gone missing. Morse falls for the church caretaker, but she has other things going on in her life.Īn American tourist is found dead in a hotel room at the Randolph Hotel, apparently from a heart-attack. Bodies of persons closely linked to St Oswald's where the first murder took place. What he finds is a maze of deceit and office adultery.Ī church warden is found with a crucifix in his chest and more bodies start to pile up as Morse and Lewis try to catch a dangerous psychopath. When a second prominent member of the syndicate is killed, Morse looks to the other members for the murderer. Quinn died of cyanide poisoning but Morse is convinced that this is a case of murder, not suicide. Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Nicholas Quinn, a hard-of-hearing Oxford examiner who had recently complained to his superior that others in the examination syndicate were selling secrets. Morse works with Sergeant Lewis for the first time.
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Episodes Series 1 (1987) No.Īnne Stavely, a friend of Morse's, ostensibly commits suicide at her home in Jericho, though Morse is unconvinced.