The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Colin Dexter
Pan Macmillan
<p><b><i>The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn</i> is the third novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.</b><br><i></i><br><i>Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague.</i></p><p>The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead . . .</p><p>And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges . . .</p>